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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 5"""
+ date="2017-10-30T17:12:00Z"
+ content="""
+IIRC once git checks the work tree file one time and realizes it's not
+really changed, it then avoids the unncessarily expensive operation
+happening again.
+
+These inneficiencies can't be fixed without changes to git. It's all
+discussed in [[todo/smudge]] in detail.
+"""]]