From: Sverre Rabbelier Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 09:51:05 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Add [] as an alias for a reference to the empty tree Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100510092054.GA2602@coredump.intra.peff.net> Heya, On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:20, Jeff King wrote: >> However, if INDEX, WORKTREE and EMPTY are preferred as syntactic sugar >> tokes, then that is fine by me. Must it be ALL CAPS? In Mercurial the fairly elegant 'nil' is used for the empty commit, why can't we do the same? > So certainly if you want to do EMPTY, I wouldn't let the lack of the > other two hold you back. The only reason they are related at all is that > they would probably share a syntax, if the other two ever even get > implemented. I still don't see the point in having INDEX and WORKTREE, especially since they're so CAPSY. Almost as if they're supposed to be environment variables. -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier