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.
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