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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Ben Lynn wrote:
>>
>> 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.