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Re: git-show --stat on first commit

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Nov 21, 2006, 18:48 UTC
Message-ID
<20061121184817.GE7201@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To
<200611211839.58709.andyparkins@gmail.com>
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 07:39:56PM CET, Andy Parkins wrote:
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> On Tuesday 2006, November 21 18:21, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > (The answer is usually "create the branch in a separate repo and then
> > fetch it to the original one". But it feels a bit kludgy given the
> > otherwise seamless support for unrelated branches. (Not that I ever was
> > a big fan of unrelated long-lived branches in general.))
> 
> Just as kludgy, but I did this today by writing the name of the new branch 
> in .git/HEAD then doing
> 
> for file in $(git-ls-files); do git-update-index --force-remove $file; done
> 
> Before creating the new files and "git-commit"ing.

Ok, this approach looks actually reasonable (contrary to the frequently suggested rm approach, which is rather dangerous).

Perhaps git checkout --empty could do this?
-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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The meaning of Stonehenge in Traflamadorian, when viewed from above, is:
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Message 19 of 35 in “git-show --stat on first commit”
  1. Andy ParkinsNov 21, 2006
  2. Jakub NarebskiNov 21, 2006
  3. Santi BéjarNov 21, 2006
  4. Peter BaumannNov 21, 2006
  5. Jakub NarebskiNov 21, 2006
  6. Peter BaumannNov 21, 2006
  7. Linus TorvaldsNov 21, 2006
  8. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  9. Peter BaumannNov 21, 2006
  10. Linus TorvaldsNov 21, 2006
  11. Olivier GalibertNov 21, 2006
  12. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  13. Petr BaudisNov 21, 2006
  14. Petr BaudisNov 21, 2006
  15. Jakub NarebskiNov 21, 2006
  16. Petr BaudisNov 21, 2006
  17. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  18. Andy ParkinsNov 21, 2006
  19. Petr BaudisNov 21, 2006
  20. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  21. Petr BaudisNov 21, 2006
  22. Junio C HamanoNov 21, 2006
  23. Jakub NarebskiNov 21, 2006
  24. Andy ParkinsNov 23, 2006
  25. Jakub NarebskiNov 24, 2006
  26. config option core.showroot to enable showing the diff of the root commitPeter Baumann, Nov 23, 2006
  27. Junio C HamanoNov 23, 2006
  28. Peter BaumannNov 23, 2006
  29. Junio C HamanoNov 24, 2006
  30. Junio C HamanoNov 24, 2006
  31. Peter BaumannNov 24, 2006
  32. Junio C HamanoNov 24, 2006
  33. Peter BaumannNov 24, 2006
  34. Carl WorthNov 21, 2006
  35. Junio C HamanoNov 21, 2006

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