Re: More merge questions (why doesn't this work?)

From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Dec 5, 2005, 15:01 UTC
Message-ID: <20051205150145.GA30765MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v4q5r2qb2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:32:17PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> writes:
> > I do.  git commit won't let me commit an empty tree, or at
> > least I haven't figured out how to make it do that.
> 
> You are right, at least for the initial commit (for subsequent
> commits it happily commits an empty tree).
> 
> Now why anybody would want to it is a different matter.  Is it
> because you would want to record that your project started from
> scratch, as opposed to some import from an existing non
> versioned (or versioned by another SCM) working tree?

Something like that, yes.

In the beginning there as nothing and git commited the nothingness.

skimo

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