Wow, I just totally assumed the index was a tree object. It seems much less elegant that it isn't. Maybe it isn't because it would necessitate creating a lot o

Wow, I just totally assumed the index was a tree object. It seems much less elegant that it isn't. Maybe it isn't because it would necessitate creating a lot of blob objects as you staged and unstaged changes, which might not get garbage collected for some time. I can't see any other reason.