From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:48:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cache-tree: do not cache empty trees
Message-ID: <7v1v3jvaef.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110207095713.GA19653@do>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> Perhaps it's not a good approach after all. What I wanted was to make
> pre-1.8.0 tolerate empty trees created by 1.8.0. Perhaps it's better
> to just let pre-1.8.0 refuse to work with empty trees, forcing users
> to upgrade to 1.8.0?

I don't think we saw even something remotely resembles an agreement that
empty tree is a good thing to have yet.  Why are you rushing things?