From: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:04:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Are these bugs?
Message-ID: <20080828010458.GE12354@leksak.fem-net>
In-Reply-To: <7v1w0akolk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "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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