Running git update-index for every individual file is slow, so add and
remove everything with a single git command.
When such a big commit lands in the default branch, it could cause PR
creation and patch checking for all open PRs to be slow, or time out
entirely. For example, a commit that removes 1383 files was measured to
take more than 60 seconds and timed out. With this change checking took
about a second.
This is related to #27967, though this will not help with commits that
change many lines in few files.
(cherry picked from commit b88e5fc72d99e9d4a0aa9c13f70e0a9e967fe057)
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