From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:37:08 GMT
Subject: Re: How to create a branch without any links to the others branches
Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0808290237l703b0394rad8f42c091d7143f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0808290227g328b793cl58a606e718b4b3ff@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> $ rm .git/HEAD
> $ echo ref: refs/heads/NEW-BRANCH-NAME > .git/HEAD
> $ git commit
>

well, it looks pretty git internal hack thing to me.

Shouldn't we add a new option to git-branch to do that, like:

    $ git branch --detach <new-branch>

?
-- 
Francis