index.c: Read index after initialization
The current behaviour of git_index_open{bare,inrepo}() is unexpected. When an index is opened, an in-memory index object is created that is linked to the index discovered by git_repository_open(). However, this index object is empty, as the on-disk index is not read. To fully open the on-disk index file, git_index_read() has to be called. This leads to confusing behaviour. Consider the following code: git_index *idx; git_index_open_inrepo(&idx, repo); git_index_write(idx); You would expect this to have no effect, as the index is never ostensibly manipulated. However, what actually happens is that the index entries are removed from the on-disk index because the empty in-memory index object created by open_inrepo() is written back to the disk. This patch reads the index after opening it.
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