f8da6801 (am --skip: support skipping while on unborn branch,
2015-06-06) introduced a performance regression to "git am --skip",
where it used "read-tree" to reconstruct the index from scratch
without reusing the cached stat information.

This is a backport of the corresponding patch to the builtin am in 2.6:
3ecc7040 (am --skip/--abort: merge HEAD/ORIG_HEAD tree into index,
2015-08-19).

Reportedly, it can make a huge difference on Windows, in one case a `git
rebase --skip` took 1m40s without, and 5s with, this patch.

cf. https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/365Reported-and-suggested-by: NKim Gybels <kgybels@infogroep.be>
Acked-by: NPaul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>