From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:03:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] hard-code the empty tree object
Message-ID: <20080214140329.GA3549@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802141238140.30505@racer.site>

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:39:01PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > 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 '{}'.
> 
> Another idea just hit me: why not use "" (i.e. the empty string)?  It is 
> not a valid ref name, and not a valid filename either...
> 
> But maybe that would be _too_ cute,

IMHO, that is a bit too cute.

-Peff