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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 6, 2012, 18:17 UTC
Message-ID: <7vpqdr7rn0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120206085707.GA24149@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> PS I probably would have done it as:
>
>      git init vendor
>      cd vendor
>      import import import
>      cd ..
>
>      git init project
>      cd project
>      git fetch ../vendor master:vendor
>
>    but I don't think there's anything wrong with your approach (in fact,
>    it's slightly more efficient).

Probably I am slower than my usual slow self this morning. Does Michael's approach go like this:

	git init project
        cd project
        import import import
        git branch -m vendor
        git checkout -b master

to fork from third-party codebase?

Or Michael had his own 'master' already and wanted an independent orphaned history from vendor, perhaps like this?

	git init project
        cd project
        work work work
        git checkout --orphan vendor
        : perhaps "git clean -f" here???
        import import import
        git checkout master
        : rootless merge???
        git merge vendor