Re: Minor bug report

> On di, 2015-06-02 at 23:48 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> > I am kind of surprised after reading these two threads that my
> > take on this issue has changed over time, as my knee-jerk
> > reaction before reading them was the opposite, something
> > along the lines of "This is only immediately after 'git init'; why
> > bother?". Or depending on my mood, that "How stupid do you
> > have to be..." sounds exactly like a message I may advocate
> > for us to send. Perhaps I grew more bitter with age.
> 
> The "fatal: Failed to resolve 'HEAD' as a valid ref." message, closely
> related to the "fatal: bad default revision 'HEAD'" message that started
> this thread just came by in #git with the following situation:
> 
> $ git init
> $ git add .
> # Oops, didn't want to add foo.xyz
> $ git reset foo.xyz
> fatal: Failed to resolve 'HEAD' as a valid ref.
> 
> The solution there is simple, git rm --cached, but I think git could
> produce more helpful messages when a repo is empty.