Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> writes: > The command is to dump .git/index, not the shared one. And since this > is not a split index test, rather a (quite low-level) json dump test, > I did not bother to also dump the shared index, which should look like > a regular one. Producing a unified view in json might not be easy with > the current code because it's tied to file reading code, nearly stream > out json as we read the file, and split-index requires a post > processing step. I could contribute a python script or something to > combine shared/main index together. That way you can still see the > combined one, but we don't have to add/maintain more C code.
Well, such a post-processing is something external scripts shine at and exporting the internal data in json format is exactly to support these scripts, so it may make a good first test case ;-)
