From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:37:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [Bug] git add -i fails in multiple ways prior to first commit.
Message-ID: <20080213103710.GA25808@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <m3k5l9cfzi.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:23:48AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> > However, I wonder if this is the best approach. It would be nice if
> > there were a shorthand for "the empty tree" for diffing,
> 
> /dev/null? --root?

--root doesn't work since it is so entwined with diffing against an
actual tree. I was thinking something more like turning the magic ref
"EMPTY_TREE" internally into the empty tree, and then everything would
just work.

Or is that what you were suggesting "/dev/null" for? Another possible
name is 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904, which is the SHA-1 of
the empty tree (currently, but I don't suppose we are going to change the
tree format anytime soon).

-Peff