From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:29:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] read-tree: abort if no trees are given
Message-ID: <4C8A168F.1030502@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100910120604.50aa1e94@jk.gs>

Am 9/10/2010 12:06, schrieb Jan Krüger:
> Currently, read-tree silently accepts an invocation without any
> tree-ishs given and simply clobbers the index in that case. This
> contradicts the usage synopsis and it's also probably not what anyone
> would want to happen. So, instead, abort with a fatal error.

See

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/135280/focus=135407

and the discussion that ensued; perhaps intersting is

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/135280/focus=135462

(where Junio suggest to make this a warning for now).

-- Hannes