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Bug: "git checkout -b" should be allowed in empty repo

From
Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date
Jan 29, 2012, 06:09 UTC
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<4F24E287.3040302@alum.mit.edu>

When starting a new repo, git seems to insist that the first commit be made on a branch named "master":

    $ git --version
    git version 1.7.9
    $ git init git-test
    Initialized empty Git repository in /home/mhagger/tmp/git-test/.git/
    $ cd git-test
    $ git checkout -b foo
    fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born

I would call this a bug; the last command should be allowed. The plumbing allows it:

    $ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/foo
Michael
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