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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add--interactive: handle initial commit better
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 05:11:10AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> > Heh.  This is cute.  But it is also a bit hard to reference, no?  I mean, 
> > you have to remember the SHA-1 of it...
> > 
> > Maybe {} ?
> 
> Or NULL? You can do this even without modifying git code, I think, by
> adding refs/NULL with appropriate sha-1...

You still need my patch, unless you want to create the empty tree object
in the databsae. The existence of the object and its name are separate.
If you want to add a magic ref or syntax that maps to the correct SHA-1,
then that makes sense to me.

-Peff