From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:11:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] hard-code the empty tree object
Message-ID: <7vabm2i1pf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080214103256.GA17951@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> We also hard-code the special ref '{}' as an alias for the
> empty tree. Users may refer to the empty tree by its
> sha1 or by '{}'.

I think the users of hard coded empty tree are oddballs.  Let's
not be too cute and instead leave it in the add -i patch.  {} is
already too cute.