From: Allan Caffee <allan.caffee@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:47:38 GMT
Subject: Re: git rebase -i <first_commit_in_repository>
Message-ID: <b2e43f8f0910261347m38ccb608nb5858ff1dc432b33@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4AE60669.9080402@dirk.my1.cc>

2009/10/26 Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>:
> Am 26.10.2009 19:08 schrieb eschvoca:
> Hi,
>
> probably my approach could help you in the future: When I create a new repo
> (git init) I firstly create an initial commit with nothing else than an
> initial commit, i.e.:
>
> $ git init
> $ echo "initial" > initial.commit
> $ git add initial.commit
> $ git commit -m "Initial commit"

I don't think this is actually necessary.  You should just be able to do:
$ git init
$ git commit --allow-empty -m "Initial commit (empty)"

--
Allan