How to create independent branches

> Peter Baumann <peter.baumann@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > How can I get the inital commit as a patch?
> 
> format-patch is designed to get a patch to send to upstream, and
> does not handle the root commit.  In your two revisions
> repository, you could do something like this:
> 
> 	$ git diff-tree -p --root master~1
> 
> Or more in general:
> 
> 	$ git rev-list master |
>           git diff-tree --stdin --root --pretty=fuller -p
> 
> BTW, I've been meaning to add --pretty=patch to give
> format-patch compatible output to diff-tree, but haven't got
> around to actually do it.  Another thing I've been meaning to do
> is "git log --diff" which is more or less "git whatchanged".
>