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how to add an empty initial commit

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BLbill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 30, 2009, 00:52 UTC
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<20090830005224.GC10952@debian.b2j>

I want to insert an empty initial commit so that I can rebase and edit files in the real initial commit. There is a --root option in git-rebase but I can not find example of how to use it.

I googled some said it needs to create a new branch, I tried but it failed to merge.

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