From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:58:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 01/12] commit-tree: allow indirect tree references
Message-ID: <7v634z7uke.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1268455984-19061-2-git-send-email-lodatom@gmail.com>

Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com> writes:

> 'git commit-tree' was the last remaining built-in to accept a <tree> but
> not a <tree-ish> (an indirect tree reference through a commit or tag
> object.)

Historically we deliberately chose not to DWIM things down to tree for
this plumbing command to catch mistakes by Porcelain scripts
(e.g. arguments given in wrong order---the order of commit-tree's
arguments are, eh, unintuitive).

I do not think that matters much anymore---I do not think this patch
is unsafe.