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Illustration: "Fundamental Git Index Operations"

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Jon Loeliger's ASCII art in the Discussion section.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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@ -399,6 +399,46 @@ save the note about that state, in practice we tend to just write the
result to the file `.git/HEAD`, so that we can always see what the
last committed state was.
Here is an ASCII art by Jon Loeliger that illustrates how
various pieces fit together.
------------
commit-tree
commit obj
+----+
| |
| |
V V
+-----------+
| Object DB |
| Backing |
| Store |
+-----------+
^
write-tree | |
tree obj | |
| | read-tree
| | tree obj
V
+-----------+
| Index |
| "cache" |
+-----------+
update-index ^
blob obj | |
| |
checkout-index -u | | checkout-index
stat | | blob obj
V
+-----------+
| Working |
| Directory |
+-----------+
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6) Examining the data
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