From: Guido Ostkamp <git@ostkamp.fastmail.fm>
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 16:24:03 GMT
Subject: Git branch bug
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705051823300.13988@bianca.dialin.t-online.de>

Hello,

I would like to report the following bug:

$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
$ git branch experimental
fatal: Not a valid object name: 'master'.

So, it seems it is not possible to create a named branch on an empty 
repository.

I'm not subscribed to the list, so please keep me directly on CC for any 
reply, thanks.

Regards

Guido