From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 22:55:05 GMT
Subject: detached HEAD before root commit - possible?
Message-ID: <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