From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:23:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] require_clean_work_tree: ensure that the index was read
Message-ID: <xmqq1t166xaz.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1608301645170.129229@virtualbox>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> > Scatch that.  That would not work in a freshly created repository
>> > before doing any "git add".  An empty index is a normal state,...
>
> Alas, that does not work, either. If no .git/index exists, read_index()
> will not set the "initialized" flag.

Exactly