From: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:25:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] read-tree: at least one tree-ish argument is required
Message-ID: <20091219122509.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vr5qrsv4g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

> Come back with a proof that there has never existed any script that uses
> "read-tree" without arguments to purge the index, and I'd immediately
> accept and apply the patch to retroactively forbid what the implementation
> has allowed users to do for a long time.

For what it's worth, I compiled the very first version of git

 commit e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290
 Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
 Date:   Thu Apr 7 15:13:13 2005 -0700

     Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hell

and its read-tree fails with 

  read-tree: read-tree <key>

Is it a proof enough?

-- 
Nanako Shiraishi
http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/