From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:25:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Can a git changeset be created with no parent
Message-ID: <7vaa9r2jii.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1316961212.4388.5.camel@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk>

Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> writes:

> On Sun, 2011-09-25 at 07:15 -0700, vra5107 wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>>         I am currently in the process of converting a large hg repository.
>> One of the changesets has no parents assigned. So to mirror that is it
>> possible to create a git changeset that doesnot have a parent ?
>
> They're called commits in git, and yes it's possible. They are called
> orphan commits and it's what you get when you do the first commit in the

Just to set the terminology straight, s/orphan/root/;

> repository.
>
> You can do this with 'git checkout --orphan somebranch'. Notice that the

The orphan here refers to the fact that the next commit will not be a
child of the current commit. The resulting one is a "root" commit.