From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:54:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Re* Bug report: reset -p HEAD
Message-ID: <xmqqiowljnoj.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20131025042421.GB11810@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>   3. Teach add--interactive to recognize the empty tree sha1 as an
>      "unstage" path.
>
> I kind of like (3). At first glance, it is wrong; we will also treat
> "git reset -p $(git hash-object -t tree /dev/null)" as if "HEAD" had
> been passed. But if you are explicitly passing the empty tree like that,
> I think saying "unstage" makes a lot of sense.

Thanks; makes sense after twisting my mind somewhat, exactly for the
reason you stated here ;-)