Re: creating a new branch without an ancestor

From: Larry D'Anna <larry@elder-gods.org>
Date: Feb 5, 2010, 03:24 UTC
Message-ID: <20100205032429.GA23285@cthulhu>
In-Reply-To: <d2e97e801002041919r2043d05cjfb114a466605d9a1@mail.gmail.com>

* Michael Wookey (michaelwookey@gmail.com) [100204 22:20]:

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> Maybe I'm missing something from reading the docs, but I couldn't see
> how to create a new branch in an existing repo that has no ancestor. I
> would like to do something like what git.git does with some of the
> other ancillary branches like "man", "html", and "todo".
> 
> I was hoping to do something like "git branch --no-ancestor
> new-branch-name" but didn't see anything in the documentation that
> describes the necessary branch options.
> 
> Or, am I looking in the wrong place?

git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/whatever

That'll leave your index and working tree alone of course, so if you did a commit right after that it would match the content of your current branch but not the history.

    --larry