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Re: Couple of read-tree questions

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Sep 1, 2005, 06:32 UTC
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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> (The thread you mention seems to say that we accept entries being missing 
> from the index as if they were unchanged, but I don't see a good reason 
> for this; you'd be dealing with the full set in the index for the merge, 
> even if you don't have a populated working tree)

You are correct. I was wondering myself why *both* of us thought (or Linus *seemed* to be agreeing, at least to me) what I was referring to as I+H made any sense while re-reaing the thread.

> I should have asked sooner, then. :) There's a bunch of clutter to get it 
> to work that I can remove if it's not actually necessary.
Yeah, removal of dead code!  Go wild, please.
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  4. Daniel BarkalowSep 1, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 1, 2005
  6. Reworked read-tree.Junio C Hamano, Sep 1, 2005
  7. Daniel BarkalowSep 1, 2005

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