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

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> Here's a patch that I think we can merge right now. There may be other 
> places that need this, but this at least points out the three places that 
> read/write working tree files for git update-index, checkout and diff 
> respectively. That should cover a lot of it.

Thanks, applied.  I think git-apply has separate codepaths for
both reading and writing; I won't look into them before 1.5.0
but people are welcome to help advancing the cause before I get
to it ;-).

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