Re: making a branch with just one file and keeping its whole history

From: Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 21, 2008, 18:22 UTC
Message-ID: <279b37b20807211122w3a1e0687wc84693bd95689326@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807211907270.8986@racer>

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Eric Raible wrote:
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>> http://www.gitcasts.com/posts/empty-branches
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> Beware!  This is one of the sites that triggered my mail about considering
> teaching plumbing to new users harmful.
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> In other words, I think that these "git casts" are not really the best way
> to teach Git to new users, but rather confusing.
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> Which is a pity, because they are nicely done otherwise.
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> Ciao,
> Dscho

I understand your concern, but if you treat that particular gitcast simple as a recipe to be followed it accomplishes the goal in the in the most straightforward way I've seen.

A new-user pure-porcelain way would be to branch then delete all of the files in the branch. Which seems a bit dirty to me.

Or is there some more intuitive porcelain-ish way of creating a new empty branch that I haven't thought of?

- Eric