From: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:39:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Operations on unborn branch
Message-ID: <CANiSa6hpztn4gRX+-azuiD2+jrMUcCteqzeXkSdDudsEfz54Mg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd2yyi4l1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> You have to special case the edges whichever way you go.  [...]

If I understand you correctly, you're saying that revision walking
would need a different special case. This is the most obvious
difference, it seems. "git show" would also need different
special-casing. But rebase wouldn't need --root, diff-tree wouldn't
need --root, any operations on an unborn branch would just work (incl
reset, cherry-pick).

Again, this is hypothetical, so I'll stop the complaining now :-)