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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.