From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 16:42:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Git branch bug
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705051841200.4015@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705051823300.13988@bianca.dialin.t-online.de>

Hi,

On Sat, 5 May 2007, Guido Ostkamp wrote:

> $ 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.

Actually, it is not possible to branch from a non-existing branch. So, 
this is somewhat expected from my POV.

Ciao,
Dscho