From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:52:00 GMT
Subject: Re: commit 0? (or: create new empty branch)
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803111350550.3873@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20080311123004.GA27577@bit.office.eurotux.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Luciano Rocha wrote:

> I'd like to create a new branch, without any pre-existing data, for
> purposes similar to git's html/man/.....

If there is nothing to branch from, there is nothing to branch from.

You might want to rename your branch (once you have something).

But then, I do not even understand why you bother.  You can always push to 
a branch of a different name, and have your principal branch being 
"master" locally.

Hth,
Dscho