From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:57:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug: "git checkout -b" should be allowed in empty repo
Message-ID: <20120206085707.GA24149@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4F2F94AC.6010800@alum.mit.edu>

On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:51:56AM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote:

> On 02/06/2012 06:06 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> >I don't recall seeing anybody complain seriously about it in the past
> >six years of git's existence.
> 
> In the real-world situation when I noticed this bug, I wasn't trying to
> use a nonstandard name for "master".  What I was doing is importing a
> snapshot of some code from another non-git project onto a "vendor
> branch", which I knew I would later want to merge into my own work
> (which I planned to do on master).

Thanks, that sounds like a very reasonable use case. I stand corrected.

(For some reason I thought you ran across it accidentally while mucking
with "--edit-description", since were talking about that an unborn
branches in a nearby thread).

-Peff

PS I probably would have done it as:

     git init vendor
     cd vendor
     import import import
     cd ..

     git init project
     cd project
     git fetch ../vendor master:vendor

   but I don't think there's anything wrong with your approach (in fact,
   it's slightly more efficient).