Merge branch 'long-paths'

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>

Author: Git for Windows Build Agent

Documentation/config.txt

@@ -760,6 +760,25 @@ relatively high IO latencies.  When enabled, Git will do the
 index comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing
 overlapping IO's.  Defaults to true.
 
+core.fscache::
+	Enable additional caching of file system data for some operations.
++
+Git for Windows uses this to bulk-read and cache lstat data of entire
+directories (instead of doing lstat file by file).
+
+core.longpaths::
+	Enable long path (> 260) support for builtin commands in Git for
+	Windows. This is disabled by default, as long paths are not supported
+	by Windows Explorer, cmd.exe and the Git for Windows tool chain
+	(msys, bash, tcl, perl...). Only enable this if you know what you're
+	doing and are prepared to live with a few quirks.
+
+core.unsetenvvars::
+	EXPERIMENTAL, Windows-only: comma-separated list of environment
+	variables' names that need to be unset before spawning any other
+	process. Defaults to `PERL5LIB` to account for the fact that Git
+	for Windows insists on using its own Perl interpreter.
+
 core.createObject::
 	You can set this to 'link', in which case a hardlink followed by
 	a delete of the source are used to make sure that object creation

builtin/commit.c

@@ -1377,6 +1377,7 @@ int cmd_status(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		       PATHSPEC_PREFER_FULL,
 		       prefix, argv);
 
+	enable_fscache(1);
 	read_cache_preload(&s.pathspec);
 	refresh_index(&the_index, REFRESH_QUIET|REFRESH_UNMERGED, &s.pathspec, NULL, NULL);
 

cache.h

@@ -753,14 +753,6 @@ extern int ref_paranoia;
 extern char comment_line_char;
 extern int auto_comment_line_char;
 
-/* Windows only */
-enum hide_dotfiles_type {
-	HIDE_DOTFILES_FALSE = 0,
-	HIDE_DOTFILES_TRUE,
-	HIDE_DOTFILES_DOTGITONLY
-};
-extern enum hide_dotfiles_type hide_dotfiles;
-
 enum branch_track {
 	BRANCH_TRACK_UNSPECIFIED = -1,
 	BRANCH_TRACK_NEVER = 0,