Re: Are these bugs?

From: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Date: Aug 28, 2008, 01:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20080828010458.GE12354@leksak.fem-net>
In-Reply-To: <7v1w0akolk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I understand why "git reset" failed, but at best the error message is
> > confusing to a new user.
> 
> This is in "patches welcome" category.

<noise> I sometimes wondered if "git init" should create a dummy commit with empty tree, empty commit message or something like that and set refs/heads/master to that and HEAD to master. But I always said to myself that this is a stupid idea for several reasons, i.e. backwards compatibility, or: if the dummy commit is to be ignored (i.e. will not become parent of the first commit), then it does not really help at all in decreasing complexity. So I rejected this thought, but now it came back. ;-)

A backwards-compatibily-breaking dummy commit would also help rebasing onto the dummy (replacing the first real commit). But I still think it's stupid. </noise>

So, for a patch, is it sane to just remove/clear the index if get_sha1("HEAD", sha1) fails?

Regards,
  Stephan

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