Heya, On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 07:43, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I doubt it would be very much useful as a general feature, as sometimes we > default to HEAD because we want a tree-ish (in which case using "empty > tree" would be appropriate) and other times because we want an actual > commit (e.g. "git commit --amend" should exit, not "amend an empty tree") > and we would need to be careful to study each codepath and use the > appropriate one. Yes, I think if we add such a "default to HEAD or empty tree" option to parse_opt we shouldn't just plug it in anywhere we default to HEAD. > But you are welcome to try and prove me wrong with a working patch ;-). Ah, I was hoping perhaps one of our still-in-hiding prospective gsoc students might feel up to the task, I am short on free time lately (I barely have enough time for Melange), the little git time I do have is spent on adding write support to git-remote-hg. So! To all you people that want to be a gsoc student for git, now's your "opportune moment" to impress us ;). -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html