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Re: [RFC] Reporting index properties

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 6, 2017, 02:39 UTC
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Alex Vandiver <alexmv@dropbox.com> writes:
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> On Fri, 6 Oct 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> > Do folks have feelings about surfacing this information, and where such
>> > logic should live?
>> 
>> Probably one of the t/helper/test-dump-*.c programs, if we already
>> do not have one.
>
> The goal would be to be able to extract this information from
> repositories, with a standard git install.  That directory only
> contains developer tools, which aren't part of the install, no?

Yes, and I am saying that such logic should not live in standard install outside developer tools ;-)

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