Re: [PATCH/RFC] Add [] as an alias for a reference to the empty tree

Heya,

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:20, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

However, if INDEX, WORKTREE and EMPTY are preferred as syntactic sugar
tokes, then that is fine by me.

Must it be ALL CAPS? In Mercurial the fairly elegant 'nil' is used for
the empty commit, why can't we do the same?

So certainly if you want to do EMPTY, I wouldn't let the lack of the
other two hold you back. The only reason they are related at all is that
they would probably share a syntax, if the other two ever even get
implemented.

I still don't see the point in having INDEX and WORKTREE, especially
since they're so CAPSY. Almost as if they're supposed to be
environment variables.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier