Re: [PATCH v2 15/27] update-ref --stdin -z: Deprecate interpreting the empty string as zeros

2014-03-31 Thread Junio C Hamano
Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu writes: In the original version of this command, for the single case of the update command's newvalue, the empty string was interpreted as being equivalent to 40 0s. This shorthand is unnecessary (binary input will usually be generated programmatically

[PATCH v2 15/27] update-ref --stdin -z: Deprecate interpreting the empty string as zeros

2014-03-24 Thread Michael Haggerty
In the original version of this command, for the single case of the update command's newvalue, the empty string was interpreted as being equivalent to 40 0s. This shorthand is unnecessary (binary input will usually be generated programmatically anyway), and it complicates the parser and the