From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:01:17 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug: "git checkout -b" should be allowed in empty repo
Message-ID: <4F27BBED.9080902@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <4F27ACED.2050709@alum.mit.edu>

Am 1/31/2012 9:57, schrieb Michael Haggerty:
> No, the idea is to avoid special casing by making 0{40} into a real (but
> empty) revision.

But then why not just have git init perform the equivalent of

  c=$(echo "Start" | git commit-tree $empty_tree_sha1) &&
  git update-ref refs/heads/master $c

People who dislike an empty initial commit can always use "git commit
--amend" for the first "real" commit.

-- Hannes