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detached HEAD before root commit - possible?

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SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date
Jun 23, 2013, 22:55 UTC
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<20130623225505.GO20052@goldbirke>

I suspect that detaching HEAD before a root commit is not possible by design. What would HEAD contain then!? 'git checkout' seems to corroborate:

$ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/test/.git/ $ git checkout --detach fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born

Are there some plumbing commands and options that would still allow this, or can I rely on that that it's impossible?

Thanks, Gábor

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