On 2019-06-19 at 09:58:50, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote: > This is probably just my itch. Every time I have to do something with > the index, I need to add a little bit code here, a little bit there to > get a better "view" of the index. > > This solves it for me. It allows me to see pretty much everything in the > index (except really low detail stuff like pathname compression). It's > readable by human, but also easy to parse if you need to do statistics > and stuff. You could even do a "diff" between two indexes. > > I'm not really sure if anybody else finds this useful. Because if not, > I guess there's not much point trying to merge it to git.git just for a > single user. Maintaining off tree is still a pain for me, but I think > I can manage it. I'm generally in favor of this, but we need to document what this does when it encounters paths that are not valid UTF-8. (Ideally, the answer is, "die()", but I suspect the answer will be "silently produce invalid output".) Those can of course occur on Unix systems, but also on Windows, where unpaired surrogates can occur. -- brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
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