Am 1/31/2012 9:57, schrieb Michael Haggerty: > No, the idea is to avoid special casing by making 0{40} into a real (but > empty) revision. But then why not just have git init perform the equivalent of c=$(echo "Start" | git commit-tree $empty_tree_sha1) && git update-ref refs/heads/master $c People who dislike an empty initial commit can always use "git commit --amend" for the first "real" commit. -- Hannes -- 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