From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:39:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] hard-code the empty tree object
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802141238140.30505@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20080214103256.GA17951@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Jeff King wrote:

> We also hard-code the special ref '{}' as an alias for the empty tree. 
> Users may refer to the empty tree by its sha1 or by '{}'.

Another idea just hit me: why not use "" (i.e. the empty string)?  It is 
not a valid ref name, and not a valid filename either...

But maybe that would be _too_ cute,
Dscho