Hi, On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Jeff King wrote: > We also hard-code the special ref '{}' as an alias for the empty tree. > Users may refer to the empty tree by its sha1 or by '{}'. Another idea just hit me: why not use "" (i.e. the empty string)? It is not a valid ref name, and not a valid filename either... But maybe that would be _too_ cute, Dscho - 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