Re: Parent-less branches

From: Pedro Melo <melo@simplicidade.org>
Date: May 2, 2008, 23:04 UTC
Message-ID: <A8B95683-9832-4973-B920-8546CC55F162@simplicidade.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vskx0wf8i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On May 2, 2008, at 10:47 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> 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..

Yes, that is what I was using until today.

I was asking for a in-repo solution, without the second git init.

The following email by Wincent Colaiuta does exactly what I wanted :).

Thanks!

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