From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Eric Gerlach <egerlach@feds.uwaterloo.ca>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is "show-ref -h" a good test for an empty repository?
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 13:34:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080907173434.GA26182@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vprnfn9pz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 10:31:52AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> All depends on how "an empty repository" is defined. My definition of an
> empty repository would have been:
>
> - No objects in it;
> - No index;
> - No refs except symrefs.
Agreed. In the original message, he used the phrase "no existing
commits" which I latched onto (to mean "no existing commits on this
branch"). But the subject does say "empty repository". :)
Eric, maybe you can tell us more about what you're trying to accomplish?
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-07 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-06 0:45 Is "show-ref -h" a good test for an empty repository? Eric Gerlach
2008-09-06 1:29 ` Jeff King
2008-09-07 14:21 ` Eric Gerlach
2008-09-07 15:50 ` Jeff King
2008-09-07 17:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-07 17:34 ` Jeff King [this message]
2008-09-08 13:24 ` Eric Gerlach
2008-09-08 14:42 ` Jeff King
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