The command looks at `core.ignorestat` configuration variable. See
'Using "assume unchanged" bit' section above.
+The command also looks at `core.trustctime` configuration variable.
+It can be useful when the inode change time is regularly modified by
+something outside Git (file system crawlers and backup systems use
+ctime for marking files processed) (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
+
SEE ALSO
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