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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>   3. Teach add--interactive to recognize the empty tree sha1 as an
>      "unstage" path.
>
> I kind of like (3). At first glance, it is wrong; we will also treat
> "git reset -p $(git hash-object -t tree /dev/null)" as if "HEAD" had
> been passed. But if you are explicitly passing the empty tree like that,
> I think saying "unstage" makes a lot of sense.

Thanks; makes sense after twisting my mind somewhat, exactly for the
reason you stated here ;-)