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SubjectRe: Kernel SCM saga..
Linus wrote:
> then git will open have exactly _one_
> file (no searching, no messing around), which contains absolutely nothing
> except for the compressed (and SHA1-signed) old contents of the file. It
> obviously _has_ to do that, because in order to know whether you've
> changed it, it needs to now compare it to the original.

I must be missing something here ...

If the stat shows a possible change, then you shouldn't have to open the
original version to determine if it really changed - just compute the
SHA1 of the new file, and see if that changed from the original SHA1.

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