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+#### Test fixtures
+
+Most of the test indices are snatched directly from the unit test suite of `git` itself, usually by running something like the following
+
+```shell
+ ./t1700-split-index.sh -r 2 --debug
+```
+
+Then one finds all test state and the index in particular in `trash directory/t1700-split-index/.git/index` and can possibly copy it over and use as fixture.
+The preferred way is to find a test of interest, and use its setup code within one of our own fixture scripts that are executed once to generate the file of interest.