On 2022-01-28 Evgeny Kotkov wrote: > Julian Foad writes: >> We could swap the scanning logic around to do the (quick) check for >> missing pristines before deciding whether a (slower) file "stat" is >> necessary. [...] > > I might be missing something, but I don't yet see how we could save a stat().
I have now responded to this in the thread "[PATCH] Sketch of per-user/per-wc config for pristines-mode", in a paragraph beginning "3. Another alternative ...". - Julian