From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can't diff against the 00000000 revision
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 19:11:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87io2yekhp.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160112153239.GA8041@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:32:39 -0500")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> And hopefully that explains why "000000" does not necessarily make a
> good placeholder for "the empty thing". There are multiple empty things,
> and it is not clear what:
>
> git diff 0000000 1234abcd
>
> means. Is 0000000 a tree? A blob?
Perhaps there should be an easy syntax for an empty thing, something
like 0^{tree} and 0^{blob}. Not sure whether it is worth the effort,
though.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-12 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-12 15:17 Can't diff against the 00000000 revision Stefan Monnier
2016-01-12 15:32 ` Jeff King
2016-01-12 15:37 ` Jeff King
2016-01-12 16:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-12 18:20 ` Jeff King
2016-01-12 18:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-12 18:11 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2016-01-12 18:21 ` Jeff King
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