From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 21:32:34 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2018, #04; Fri, 17)
Message-ID: <xmqq6004bu6l.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kbQ5L39kdsfouPXJjJOm_Ni9TY5Qan7nHZE9VbcaEMyGA@mail.gmail.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

>>  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.