From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:17:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] read-tree: at least one tree-ish argument is required
Message-ID: <m3d42cc4i8.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <200912182304.27656.j.sixt@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> Running read-tree without any arguments purges the index, but this is not
> documented. This behavior is dubious at best because contrary to many
> other commands, it does not use HEAD if nothing else is specified.
> 
> If one really wants to clear the index, this can be achieved with
> 'git rm --cached .' or 'rm -f .git/index' in a more explicit way.

One can (I think) also always use "git read-tree <empty tree>",
where <empty tree> = 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git