From: greened@obbligato.org Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 01:44:18 GMT Subject: Re: git subtree error (just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?) Message-ID: <87wqvx3cel.fsf@waller.obbligato.org> In-Reply-To: Drew Crawford writes: > I noticed today that if you leave off the branch name from git subtree like so: > > $ git subtree add --prefix somewhere -m "adding CDH as subtree" path/to/repo > warning: read-tree: emptying the index with no arguments is deprecated; use --empty > fatal: just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees? > > The error message is not particularly helpful (and seems to actually be in read-subtree?) The solution in my case was to add the branch name on the end of the command. > > Ideally it would be better to emit an error-message from a script higher up the calling chain that would be more descriptive about the problem (such as suggesting no branch is specified).-- Good idea. I'll code it up. -David