From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:08:10 GMT
Subject: Re: commit 0? (or: create new empty branch)
Message-ID: <47D6843A.1030200@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080311123004.GA27577@bit.office.eurotux.com>

Luciano Rocha schrieb:
> I'd like to create a new branch, without any pre-existing data, for
> purposes similar to git's html/man/.....
> 
> However, I've been unable to do that using the higher level tools.
> 
> Even starting from an empty git rep, I can't create a branch:
> 
> $ git init
> Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
> $ git branch empty
> fatal: Not a valid object name: 'master'.
> 
> How were the different git.git branches created?

There are two ways:

1. Plumbing level

  $ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/html
  $ rm .git/index
  ...commit new content...

2. Porcelain level

  $ mkdir ../html && cd ../html
  $ git init
  ...commit new content...
  $ cd -   # go back
  $ git fetch ../html master:html

-- Hannes