Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> writes: > The number one reason was because the current index file format > is pretty dense, and I did not find an obvious hole in the > front, in the middle or at the tail to sneak extra data in > without upsetting existing code and without updating index file > version. Well, I was blind ;-). As long as the whole-file SHA1 matches, read_cache() does not care if we have extra data after the series of active_nr cache entry data in the index file. I'm working on a patch now. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html