read-cache: force_verify_index_checksum
Teach git to skip verification of the SHA1-1 checksum at the end of
the index file in verify_hdr() which is called from read_index()
unless the "force_verify_index_checksum" global variable is set.
Teach fsck to force this verification.
The checksum verification is for detecting disk corruption, and for
small projects, the time it takes to compute SHA-1 is not that
significant, but for gigantic repositories this calculation adds
significant time to every command.
These effect can be seen using t/perf/p0002-read-cache.sh:
Test HEAD~1 HEAD
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0002.1: read_cache/discard_cache 1000 times 0.66(0.44+0.20) 0.30(0.27+0.02) -54.5%
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>