On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 09:11:56AM -0800, Junio C Hamano 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 '{}'. > > I think the users of hard coded empty tree are oddballs. Let's > not be too cute and instead leave it in the add -i patch. {} is > already too cute. By "it" I assume you mean "the sha1 of the empty tree", meaning to not include the {} bit at all? I am fine with that, as I don't think anyone has even mentioned a workflow where such a shorthand would be beneficial to users. The only one I can think of is to represent some tree using diff tools (e.g., "git diff --stat {} HEAD" instead of some variant on ls-files), but I have never once actually wanted to do that. Should I re-send, or do you want to just markup the existing patches? -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