Re: How to create a branch without any links to the others branches

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 29, 2008, 09:46 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0808290246j299371b0k7895308368266a01@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <38b2ab8a0808290237l703b0394rad8f42c091d7143f@mail.gmail.com>

2008/8/29 Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>:

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> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> $ rm .git/HEAD
>> $ echo ref: refs/heads/NEW-BRANCH-NAME > .git/HEAD
>> $ git commit
>>
>
> well, it looks pretty git internal hack thing to me.
>
> Shouldn't we add a new option to git-branch to do that, like:
>
>    $ git branch --detach <new-branch>
>

Dunno. I never needed that explicitly. What do you want to do with it?