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Re: How can I create a commit without a parent?

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 2, 2010, 08:05 UTC
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Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com> writes:
> git commit-tree insists on having at least one parent commit at 
> the command line.

Incorrect. "git commit" might but "git commit-tree" does. Perhaps you are forgetting that the first object name is a tree to be wrapped.

A short answer is that you don't create a root commit twice in a single repository, period. Your repository _may_ be end up with more than one root but that typically is due to you fetching unrelated histories from different repositories, each created its own root.

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