From 6bed200ec1a528574edabf5783e9ebfb00add56d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Thiel <sebastian.thiel@icloud.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 13:12:06 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] empty trees are allowed, and they are special, too

Essentially they are the root tree, and can be used to diff against
nothing, showing everything
---
 git-object/src/owned/tree.rs | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-object/src/owned/tree.rs b/git-object/src/owned/tree.rs
index 50ac4e188fb..cc5a24a0b78 100644
--- a/git-object/src/owned/tree.rs
+++ b/git-object/src/owned/tree.rs
@@ -6,9 +6,6 @@ use std::io;
 quick_error! {
     #[derive(Debug)]
     pub enum Error {
-        NoEntries {
-            description("Trees must have at least one entry")
-        }
         NewlineInFilename(name: BString){
             display("Newlines are invalid in file paths: {:?}", name)
         }
@@ -50,9 +47,6 @@ impl TreeMode {
 
 impl Tree {
     pub fn write_to(&self, mut out: impl io::Write) -> io::Result<()> {
-        if self.entries.is_empty() {
-            return Err(Error::NoEntries.into());
-        }
         for Entry { mode, filename, oid } in &self.entries {
             out.write_all(mode.as_bytes())?;
             out.write_all(SPACE)?;