From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:25:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] update a few Porcelain-ish for ref lock safety.
Message-ID: <7vbqp1g492.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <45196CAB.6030903@shadowen.org>

Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> writes:

>> +prev=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
>
> It seems a little odd to need to use such a large 'none' thing.  Will
> linus' updates start returning this when there is no tag?  If so then it
> makes sense.  Else perhaps it would be nice to have a short cut for it.
>  Such as 'none'.

True.  It probably is better to accept something shorter, like
an empty string, or token "none".  But this is a plumbing
command, and I was not too concerned about having to say 40 "0"
in the Porcelain scripts.