Re: [PATCH 4/6] require_clean_work_tree: ensure that the index was read

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 30, 2016, 11:00 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1608301300010.129229@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq60qj6kmf.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Hi Junio,

On Mon, 29 Aug 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > I am not sure if it should be left as the responsibility of the
> > caller (i.e. check the_index.initialized to bark at a caller that
> > forgets to read from an index) ...
> 
> Scatch that.  That would not work in a freshly created repository
> before doing any "git add".  An empty index is a normal state, so it
> would not just be annoying to warn "You called me without reading
> the index" but is simply wrong.

Fine. I changed it to assert that the_index.initialized was set.

Ciao, Dscho

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