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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> > Scatch that.  That would not work in a freshly created repository
>> > before doing any "git add".  An empty index is a normal state,...
>
> Alas, that does not work, either. If no .git/index exists, read_index()
> will not set the "initialized" flag.

Exactly