On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You have to special case the edges whichever way you go. [...] If I understand you correctly, you're saying that revision walking would need a different special case. This is the most obvious difference, it seems. "git show" would also need different special-casing. But rebase wouldn't need --root, diff-tree wouldn't need --root, any operations on an unborn branch would just work (incl reset, cherry-pick). Again, this is hypothetical, so I'll stop the complaining now :-) -- 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