From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 18:11:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Can't diff against the 00000000 revision
Message-ID: <87io2yekhp.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <20160112153239.GA8041@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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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