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Re: Question About Sorting the Index

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Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>
Date
May 18, 2025, 15:13 UTC
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On 5/17/25 10:13 PM, Elijah Newren wrote:
> Isn't the idea essentially the split index we already have?  (See the
> "SPLIT INDEX" section of the git-update-index manual.)

I admittedly hadn't read that before. Yes, it's similar. But, I think I better become more familiar with this man page before I take up any more of this list's time.

One observation - wouldn't things be nice if the index entries were (somehow) the same length.

Jon
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