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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rhodes, Kate" <masukomi@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug] git add -i fails in multiple ways prior to first commit.
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:37:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080213103710.GA25808@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3k5l9cfzi.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:23:48AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> > However, I wonder if this is the best approach. It would be nice if
> > there were a shorthand for "the empty tree" for diffing,
> 
> /dev/null? --root?

--root doesn't work since it is so entwined with diffing against an
actual tree. I was thinking something more like turning the magic ref
"EMPTY_TREE" internally into the empty tree, and then everything would
just work.

Or is that what you were suggesting "/dev/null" for? Another possible
name is 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904, which is the SHA-1 of
the empty tree (currently, but I don't suppose we are going to change the
tree format anytime soon).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-13 10:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-12  0:59 [Bug] git add -i fails in multiple ways prior to first commit Rhodes, Kate
2008-02-13 10:16 ` Jeff King
2008-02-13 10:23   ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-13 10:37     ` Jeff King [this message]
2008-02-13 10:50   ` [PATCH] add--interactive: handle initial commit better Jeff King
2008-02-13 11:25     ` Jeff King
2008-02-13 12:19       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-13 13:11         ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-13 13:15           ` Jeff King
2008-02-13 13:22           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-13 13:45             ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-13 11:30   ` [Bug] git add -i fails in multiple ways prior to first commit Junio C Hamano
2008-02-13 11:34     ` Jeff King

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