From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 21:47:09 GMT
Subject: Re: Parent-less branches
Message-ID: <7vskx0wf8i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <F26CE1A6-FE85-4AC6-BCE6-B41085A09F0F@simplicidade.org>

Pedro Melo <melo@simplicidade.org> writes:

> inside an existing repository I want to create a new branch without a
> parent commit. Is there a set of commands to do this?

Typically these commits come about because you created a completely
separate history elsewhere in a separate repository and fetched and/or
pulled from there.

So "a set of commands to do this" would be:

	go away
	git init
        build history as usual
	come back
        git fetch ..from that other repository..