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Re: .git/index

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 25, 2009, 18:02 UTC
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The index is associated with the work tree. Since gitweb is supposed to read and show the history and never the work tree state, it would be a bug if it required it to operate.

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Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

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