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When adding a lot of small files to git with `git annex add`,
it is slow because git runs the smudge filter on all files
and [[that_is_slow|todo/git_smudge_clean_interface_suboptiomal]].
But `git-annex add --force-small` is much much faster, because that
bypasses git add entirely, hashing the content and staging it in the index
from git-annex. So could that same method be used to speed up the slow case?
My concern with doing this is that there may be things that `git add`
does that are not done when bypassing it. The only one I can think of is,
if the user has other smudge/clean filters than the git-annex one
installed, they would not be run either. It could be argued that's a bug
with the existing `--force-small` too, but at least that's not the default.
Possible alternate approach: Unsetting filter.annex.smudge and
filter.annex.clean when running `git add`?