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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Kate Rhodes <masukomi@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] hard-code the empty tree object
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:11:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vabm2i1pf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20080214103256.GA17951@coredump.intra.peff.net

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> We also hard-code the special ref '{}' as an alias for the
> empty tree. Users may refer to the empty tree by its
> sha1 or by '{}'.

I think the users of hard coded empty tree are oddballs.  Let's
not be too cute and instead leave it in the add -i patch.  {} is
already too cute.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-15 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-14 10:32 [PATCH 1/2] hard-code the empty tree object Jeff King
2008-02-14 12:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-14 14:03   ` Jeff King
2008-02-15 17:11 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-02-15 17:20   ` Jeff King
2008-02-15 17:42     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-15 18:25       ` Jeff King

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