Re: [PATCH 2/2] read-tree: at least one tree-ish argument is required

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

Running read-tree without any arguments purges the index, but this is not
documented. This behavior is dubious at best because contrary to many
other commands, it does not use HEAD if nothing else is specified.

If one really wants to clear the index, this can be achieved with
'git rm --cached .' or 'rm -f .git/index' in a more explicit way.

One can (I think) also always use "git read-tree <empty tree>",
where <empty tree> = 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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