From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 21:21:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] merge-recursive: make empty tree a known object
Message-ID: <7vpsar4fcu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612101030390.12500@woody.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> So you could make "read_sha1_file()" just have a special case for known 
> objects at the end. If the pack entry fails, the loose file case fails, 
> then rather than returning NULL at the end, you could have a list of known 
> fixed objects..

That is fine by me.  We would benefit from an empty blob and an
empty tree.