Re: git bugs

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Ben Lynn wrote:

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The only drawback is that I'm not sure how acceptable it is to write to 
the index on a read operation. Is this a big deal?

Historically, we *never* did it. In fact, it was a big deal. These days we 
do it opportunistically for "git diff" if we can, but making sure that it 
all still works for a read-only access (think gitweb etc - the reader is 

Thanks for giving a good summary (I've been away), and I agree with your
analysis of the situation.  I do not see much need to _fix_ anything
around this area, except your "smudging is not zero timestamp" update.