From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:05:25 GMT Subject: Re: How can I create a commit without a parent? Message-ID: <7vwryw6p16.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Ron Garret 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.