Hi,
Jeff King wrote:
> ---
> I was tempted to not involve filter-branch in this commit at all, and
> instead require the user to manually invoke
>
> GIT_ALLOW_NULL_SHA1=1 git filter-branch ...
>
> to perform such a filter. That would be slightly safer, but requires
> some specialized knowledge
Commit 4337b58 (do not write null sha1s to on-disk index,
2012-07-28) unconditionally prevents git from writing null
sha1s into the index. The intent was to catch errors in
other parts of the code that might let such an entry slip
into the index (or worse, a tree).
However, some repositories have
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