Re: [PATCH/RFC] Add [] as an alias for a reference to the empty tree

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Heya,

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:20, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> However, if INDEX, WORKTREE and EMPTY are preferred as syntactic sugar
>> tokes, then that is fine by me.

Must it be ALL CAPS? In Mercurial the fairly elegant 'nil' is used for
the empty commit, why can't we do the same?

> So certainly if you want to do EMPTY, I wouldn't let the lack of the
> other two hold you back. The only reason they are related at all is that
> they would probably share a syntax, if the other two ever even get
> implemented.

I still don't see the point in having INDEX and WORKTREE, especially
since they're so CAPSY. Almost as if they're supposed to be
environment variables.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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