From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:14:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug: "git checkout -b" should be allowed in empty repo
Message-ID: <20120206201440.GB30776@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vpqdr7rn0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 10:17:55AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > 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).
> 
> Probably I am slower than my usual slow self this morning. Does Michael's
> approach go like this:
> 
> 	git init project
>         cd project
>         import import import
>         git branch -m vendor
>         git checkout -b master
> 
> to fork from third-party codebase?

I thought it would have been:

  git init project
  cd project
  git checkout -b vendor
  import import import
  git checkout -b master
  modify modify modify

but he can probably say more.

-Peff