From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:40:53 GMT
Subject: Re: How can I create a commit without a parent?
Message-ID: <76718491002020840y16d62fb5qc4f6c51602dac94f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ron1-5383E3.00002602022010@news.gmane.org>

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com> wrote:
> SLSIA.  git commit-tree insists on having at least one parent commit at
> the command line.  From reverse-engineering it seems like I could do it
> by setting .git/HEAD to 'ref: refs/heads/some-nonexistent-branch' but
> mucking with HEAD directly like that feels kinda scary.

I guess you're looking to do it with plumbing, but with porcelain the
way I'd do it is:

$ git init foo
$ git init bar
$ cd bar
$ git commit --allow-empty -m "empty bar root commit"
$ cd ../foo
$ git commit --allow-empty -m "empty foo root commit"
$ git fetch ../bar master:bar

j.