Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > In either case, I think '--zero-oid' makes more sense than '--null-oid' > (and it matches the tests that are already written). The pair > '--zero-oid' and '--empty-oid=<type>' make sense to me. I am not sure rev-parse should even know about "empty-oid". An end user or a script who wants to learn what name an empty blob has can and should ask "git hash-object -t blob --stdin </dev/null". I can buy --zero-oid might be handy, but don't see a pressing need if it is merely to support our test suite and sample hooks. Instead, something like ZERO_OID=$(git hash-object --stdin </dev/null | tr '[0-9a-f]' '0') should suffice, no? Take this as a mild indifference, not as a strong rejection.
