From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:36:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] read-tree: deprecate syntax without tree-ish args
Message-ID: <7vhbhxip9u.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100910152859.778636d4@jk.gs>

Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs> writes:

> Currently, read-tree can be run without tree-ish arguments, in which
> case it will empty the index. Since this behavior is undocumented and
> perhaps a bit too invasive to be the "default" action for read-tree,
> deprecate it in favor of a new --empty option that does the same thing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>

Sounds sensible; will queue.  Thanks.