Re: need to create new repository initially seeded with several branches

> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:14:48AM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:
> 
>>    git checkout -b devel &&  # make a new branch named "devel"
>>                              # which has the same state as the
>>                              # currently checked out branch: "master"
>>                              # i.e. devel and master point to the
>>                              # same tip commit.
>>    rm -rf * &&               # remove the files in the working dir
>>    cp -a $devel_dir/* . &&   # cp devel source code to working dir
>>    git add -A . &&           # add new/removed files to the index
>>                              # to be committed on next 'git commit'
>>    git commit
>>    # use editor to give descriptive commit message
>>
>> Repeat for your topic branch based off of devel.
> 
> I am probably just going to confuse the original poster more, but here
> is how I would do it. It's slightly more efficient, as it doesn't
> involve removing and copying files for the intermediate states:
> 
>   # make a repo and switch to it
>   git init repo && cd repo
> 
>   # and now add everything from the "master" version, and
>   # make a commit out of it
>   GIT_WORK_TREE=/path/to/master git add -A
>   git commit
> 
>   # now make the devel branch and do the same
>   git checkout -b devel
>   GIT_WORK_TREE=/path/to/devel git add -A
>   git commit
> 
>   # and then check out the result in the working tree of
>   # your newly created repo
>   git checkout -f