The interactive add script hard-codes the object ID of the empty tree. To avoid any problems when changing hashes, compute this value when used and cache it for any future uses. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- git-add--interactive.perl | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-add--interactive.perl b/git-add--interactive.perl index c1f52e457f..36f38ced90 100755 --- a/git-add--interactive.perl +++ b/git-add--interactive.perl @@ -205,8 +205,15 @@ my $status_head = sprintf($status_fmt, __('staged'), __('unstaged'), __('path')) } } -sub get_empty_tree { - return '4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904'; +{ + my $empty_tree; + sub get_empty_tree { + return $empty_tree if defined $empty_tree; + + $empty_tree = run_cmd_pipe(qw(git hash-object -t tree /dev/null)); + chomp $empty_tree; + return $empty_tree; + } } sub get_diff_reference {