I noticed today that if you leave off the branch name from git subtree like so:

$ git subtree add --prefix somewhere -m "adding CDH as subtree" path/to/repo
warning: read-tree: emptying the index with no arguments is deprecated; use 
--empty
fatal: just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?

The error message is not particularly helpful (and seems to actually be in 
read-subtree?)  The solution in my case was to add the branch name on the end 
of the command.

Ideally it would be better to emit an error-message from a script higher up the 
calling chain that would be more descriptive about the problem (such as 
suggesting no branch is specified).--
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