On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:23:48AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > However, I wonder if this is the best approach. It would be nice if > > there were a shorthand for "the empty tree" for diffing, > > /dev/null? --root? --root doesn't work since it is so entwined with diffing against an actual tree. I was thinking something more like turning the magic ref "EMPTY_TREE" internally into the empty tree, and then everything would just work. Or is that what you were suggesting "/dev/null" for? Another possible name is 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904, which is the SHA-1 of the empty tree (currently, but I don't suppose we are going to change the tree format anytime soon). -Peff - 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
