From: Ulrik Sverdrup <ulrik.sverdrup@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 23:20:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Parent-less branches
Message-ID: <20080502232008.GA20092@ulrik-ibook>

> 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

I think I've seen this done much simpler, in this blog post:

http://madduck.net/blog/2007.07.11:creating-a-git-branch-without-ancestry/

Even though your instructions seem more complicated than they are since
they mix setting up the parentless branch and preparing the first
commit content.

regards,
ulrik

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