Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> And hopefully that explains why "000000" does not necessarily make a
> good placeholder for "the empty thing". There are multiple empty things,
> and it is not clear what:
>
> git diff 0000000 1234abcd
>
> means. Is 0000000 a tree? A blob?
Perhaps there should be an easy syntax for an empty thing, something
like 0^{tree} and 0^{blob}. Not sure whether it is worth the effort,
though.
Andreas.
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