index: test for smudged entries on write only
Test that entries are only smudged when we write the index: the entry smudging is to prevent us from updating an index in a way that it would be impossible to tell that an item was racy. Consider when we load an index: any entries that have the same (or newer) timestamp than the index itself are considered racy, and are subject to further scrutiny. If we *save* that index with the same entries that we loaded, then the index would now have a newer timestamp than the entries, and they would no longer be given that additional scrutiny, failing our racy detection! So test that we smudge those entries only on writing the new index, but that we can detect them (in diff) without having to write.
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