On 03/31/2014 11:48 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Michael Haggerty <mhag...@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
>> This is the (slightly inconsistent) status quo; make sure it doesn't
>> change by accident.
>
> Interesting. So "oldvalue" being empty is "we do not care what it
> is" (as opposed to "we know it must not exist yet" aka 0{40}), and
> "newvalue" being empty is the same as "delete it" aka 0{40}.
>
> That is unfortunate, but I agree it is a good idea to add a test for
> it, so that we will notice when we decide to fix it.
Correct. This was discussed at some more length here [1]. In v1 of
this patch series I incorrectly changed this behavior, thinking it to
have been an accident.
Michael
[1]
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/243731/focus=243773
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