From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:39:18 GMT Subject: Re: [howto] Kernel hacker's guide to git, updated Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vslvn6m6y.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> 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