From e3994243e274b8b0e8111c5aac455331a2d5adc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Case Duckworth
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:00:14 -0700
Subject: Add index of first lines

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-- 
cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81