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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> By "it" I assume you mean "the sha1 of the empty tree", meaning to not
> include the {} bit at all?

Yes, that's what I meant.

> I am fine with that, as I don't think anyone has even mentioned a
> workflow where such a shorthand would be beneficial to users. The only
> one I can think of is to represent some tree using diff tools (e.g., "git
> diff --stat {} HEAD" instead of some variant on ls-files), but I have
> never once actually wanted to do that.

Likewise.

> Should I re-send, or do you want to just markup the existing patches?

Shouldn't the previous one that uses the hardcoded empty tree
object name good enough that is already on 'pu'?