From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 20:49:04 GMT
Subject: Re: How to create independent branches
Message-ID: <7vsloneqtb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060408180244.GA4807@xp.machine.de>

Peter Baumann <peter.baumann@gmail.com> writes:

> Another question. I'd like to create a totaly independent branch (like
> the "todo" branch in git). Is there a more user friendly way than doing
>
> git-checkout -b todo
> rm .git/refs/heads/todo
> rm .git/index
> rm <all_files_in_your_workdir>
>
> ... hack hack hack ...
> git-commit -a
>
> I looked all over the docs, but can't find anything obvious.

My "todo" branch is not even part of my main git repository.  I
just have two independent repositories (git and todo) locally,
and push into the same public repository.