From: Guido Ostkamp <git@ostkamp.fastmail.fm>
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 17:44:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Git branch bug
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705051942550.14963@bianca.dialin.t-online.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705051841200.4015@racer.site>

> 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.

>From a git beginners point of view, I would expect that the 'master' 
branch is automatically created when performing the 'git init'. Why is 
this not the case?

Regards

Guido