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GOTCHA: Sometimes len(pygit2.Repository().index) > 0 !

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
git, python
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the Python 3.10.6 example with pygit2 1.10.1, especially the call to pygit2.Repository().index and its entries. Trace why a new repository index contains aaaa and bbbb, then establish the intended empty-index behavior and verify the correction with regression coverage.

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Description

Python 3.10.6 (main, Aug 10 2022, 11:40:04) [GCC 11.3.0] on linux
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>>> import pygit2
>>> len(pygit2.Repository().index)
2
>>> for item in pygit2.Repository().index: print(item)
... 
<path=aaaa id=e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 mode=33188>
<path=bbbb id=e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 mode=33188>
>>> pygit2.__version__
'1.10.1'

This really surprised me, and I spent over 2 hours wondering why my code did not work before I thought maybe there's a bug.

With hindsight, I think it will be easy to reproduce. Ask me if you want help with this.

I will use index.clear() as a work-around.

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