Re: [PATCH v8 7/8] cache: add empty_tree_oid object

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Is there a reason for that? I've found that .field = value is safer
>>> because it ensures that you don't end up initializing the wrong
>>> values? Or is it a compatibility thing?
>>
>> Yes.
>
> That was a bit too terse.  The answers to all three questions are
> "Yes", "Yes", and "Yes".
>
> Together with enum ... = { A, B, C, }; we may want to consider not
> worrying about ancient compilers at some point, and it might be this
> year or next year, but I do not think we want to do that as part of
> this series.