From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 22:32:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Parent-less branches
Message-ID: <0EACFC4A-F2E7-48D3-BE49-10D2B32AB470@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vskx0wf8i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

El 2/5/2008, a las 23:47, Junio C Hamano escribió:
> Pedro Melo <melo@simplicidade.org> writes:
>
>> inside an existing repository I want to create a new branch without a
>> parent commit. Is there a set of commands to do this?
>
> Typically these commits come about because you created a completely
> separate history elsewhere in a separate repository and fetched and/or
> pulled from there.
>
> So "a set of commands to do this" would be:
>
> 	go away
> 	git init
>        build history as usual
> 	come back
>        git fetch ..from that other repository..

I wanted to do this just the other day, but I did it all inside the  
one repo, and made some notes on the process here:

http://rails.wincent.com/wiki/Creating_independent_branches_with_Git

Basically, using "git write-tree" and "git commit-tree" plumbing.

Cheers,
Wincent