On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 03:31:14AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:27 AM, Lukas Fleischer <c...@cryptocrack.de> wrote:
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> + } else {
> + /*
> + * SHA-1 of an empty tree. We might be better off
> not
> + * hardcoding this.
> + */
> + get_sha1
> ("4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904",
> + old_tree_sha1);
> + }
> +
>
>
> What's the story here?
This is needed if we want to build a diff for the root commit. It
doesn't have any parent, so we need to build against the empty tree. I
am pretty sure there are better ways to do this -- just too tired to
check now (hence the "RFC" in the subject).
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