Hi,

your test script is slightly wrong...

First you "git init", with GIT_DIR in $(pwd)/.git, i.e. the default.  But 
then, you need not do this, test scripts are called when git init was 
already called.

Then you make an untracked directory called untracked/.  Tradition 
dictates that when we're in that directory, we get the prefix 
"untracked/", because we might add a file, or reference a file in another 
branch, where that directory is _not_ untracked.

So it is expected that checkout-index and ls-files behave differently 
in a subdirectory (even if that is currently untracked).

It seems a bit counterintuitive that read-tree succeeds, but really, 
read-tree is only a commit -> index operation, which should not care about 
the current prefix.  So it is fine.

Checkout-index, instead, is an index -> working tree operation, and for 
most of these, we care about the current prefix (so that you can say git 
checkout-index file1, where file1 is in the current directory, which is 
_not_ the working tree root).

Ciao,
Dscho

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