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Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2018, #04; Fri, 17)

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Aug 20, 2018, 21:32 UTC
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Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
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>>  I find the design a bit iffy in that our usual "missing in the
>>  working tree?  let's use the latest blob" fallback is to take it
>>  from the index, not from the HEAD.
>
> I am not sure; why does it feel iffy?

Why doesn't it? There is no justification why it has to be different from others and read from HEAD bypassing index.

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  1. Junio C HamanoAug 17, 2018
  2. Duy NguyenAug 18, 2018
  3. Jonathan NiederAug 18, 2018
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 20, 2018
  5. Derrick StoleeAug 20, 2018
  6. Christian CouderAug 18, 2018
  7. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 18, 2018
  8. Christian CouderAug 18, 2018
  9. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 18, 2018
  10. Phillip WoodAug 20, 2018
  11. Eric SunshineAug 20, 2018
  12. pw/rebase-i-author-script-fix, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2018, #04; Fri, 17)Johannes Schindelin, Aug 20, 2018
  13. Stefan BellerAug 20, 2018
  14. Junio C HamanoAug 20, 2018
  15. Jonathan NiederAug 20, 2018

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