Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Ah, missed this before. It is not clear to me why this difference --- > is it just to be conservative about changing behavior? Yes. It is clear from the context you mean its tree if you feed a commit to commit-tree, but the original intent of not dereferncing was to avoid mistakes by scripts and people, so you need to make a convincing argument that not derefencing does not help avoiding mistakes, and prove that nobody's script is relying on the current behaviour for type-checking purposes. -- 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