From 3e56e7245c37ce57dde72ec74ee2df41ce603dda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2015 22:16:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] sha1_file.c: introduce a null_oid constant

null_oid is the struct object_id equivalent to null_sha1.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 cache.h     | 1 +
 sha1_file.c | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 614040e7006..071eecee7ab 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -813,6 +813,7 @@ extern const char *find_unique_abbrev(const unsigned char *sha1, int len);
 extern int find_unique_abbrev_r(char *hex, const unsigned char *sha1, int len);
 
 extern const unsigned char null_sha1[GIT_SHA1_RAWSZ];
+extern const struct object_id null_oid;
 
 static inline int hashcmp(const unsigned char *sha1, const unsigned char *sha2)
 {
diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
index 27ce7b705e1..a54deb0558f 100644
--- a/sha1_file.c
+++ b/sha1_file.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 static inline uintmax_t sz_fmt(size_t s) { return s; }
 
 const unsigned char null_sha1[20];
+const struct object_id null_oid;
 
 /*
  * This is meant to hold a *small* number of objects that you would