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From: Dave MacFarlane <driusan@gmail.com>
Date: Tue,  2 Apr 2019 09:32:55 -0400
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Git/fs: Possibly Usable
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On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 12:49 AM <ori@eigenstate.org> wrote:
> One caveat I have: Git's index file format is a bit
> boneheaded, so I'm ignoring it. The index doesn't affect
> the wire protocol, so this isn't an interoperability issue,
> unless you share the same physical repository on both
> Plan 9 and Unix. If you do, expect them to get out of
> sync on uncommitted but added files.
>

What problems did you have with the index format? In my experience
it was relatively sane (relative to the pack protocol/format, I mean,
which is a pretty low bar to set.)

- Dave