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Re: Can't diff against the 00000000 revision

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Jan 12, 2016, 18:11 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> And hopefully that explains why "000000" does not necessarily make a
> good placeholder for "the empty thing". There are multiple empty things,
> and it is not clear what:
>
>   git diff 0000000 1234abcd
>
> means. Is 0000000 a tree? A blob?

Perhaps there should be an easy syntax for an empty thing, something like 0^{tree} and 0^{blob}. Not sure whether it is worth the effort, though.

Andreas.
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