Re: [PATCH] commit-tree: disallow an empty single-parent commit.

From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date: Feb 24, 2006, 12:58 UTC
Message-ID: <m1y800dibp.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vslq99cd5.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

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> Allow "git-commit-tree v2.6.15^{tree} -p HEAD", instead of
> requiring "git-commit-tree `git rev-parse v2.6.15^{tree}` -p
> HEAD".  The parent parameter that follows -p uses get_sha1() to
> understand the extended notation, and there is little reason not
> to allow it for the tree object name parameter.
>
> Also make the check_valid() function simpler.  This function
> which predates sha1_object_info() so it had to do things by hand
> but there is no reason to read the data just to discard anymore.
>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Looks good to me. The logic at least looks complete.

Eric