From: Pedro Melo Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 23:04:06 GMT Subject: Re: Parent-less branches Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vskx0wf8i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Hi, On May 2, 2008, at 10:47 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Pedro Melo 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! -- Pedro Melo Blog: http://www.simplicidade.org/notes/ XMPP ID: melo@simplicidade.org Use XMPP!