From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:28:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Recommended work flow with git to send in patches
Message-ID: <20100727172811.GE5351@kytes>
In-Reply-To: <m339v4luk2.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Hi Jakub,

Jakub Narebski writes:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
> > $ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/rollout
> > $ rm .git/index # Git recreates it automatically anyway
> > $ git add LICENSE
> > $ git commit -m "Add LICENSE" # root commit
> > $ # git add ... git commit cycle
> 
> Ramkumar, in git 1.7.2 you can simply use "git checkout --orphan newbranch".

Thanks for pointing this out! I'm still using many plubming tools- I
ought to find out their equivalents in the new porcelain.

-- Ram