From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:02:03 GMT
Subject: Re: .git/index
Message-ID: <7v1vsl7a78.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910903251016n117c37fdp94f91b2862cd7bf@mail.gmail.com>

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.