(fixed) [PATCH 1/4] Accept commit in some places when tree is needed.

cover-paragraph _BLUSH_ The 1/4 in the series was a buggy one I sent by mistake. Please replace it with this fixed one. The other three are OK. BTW, do you have a preferred patch-mail convention to mark the cover paragraph like this to be excluded from the commit log, like the three-dash one

Re: [PATCH 1/4] Accept commit in some places when tree is needed.

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: This patch lifts the tree-from-tree-or-commit logic from diff-cache.c and moves it to sha1_file.c, which is a common library source for the SHA1 storage part. I don't think that's a good interface. It changes the sha1 passed into it: that may