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Re: [howto] Kernel hacker's guide to git, updated

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Sep 30, 2005, 16:39 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0509300937130.3378@g5.osdl.org>
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> I wonder what that 32-byte small file called 'index' is doing
> there.  If this is the kernel tree, its index file should weigh
> about 1.7MB if I recall correctly.

32 bytes is what you get for an empty index (it's a 12-byte header, followed by a 20-byte SHA1 of the contents).

In general, such an index file it should be 100% equivalent to not having an index file at all.

		Linus
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