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Re: Parent-less branches

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SRSverre Rabbelier <alturin@gmail.com>
Date
May 3, 2008, 00:46 UTC
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On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 2:17 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
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>  In short the solution is to create content-less branch using:
>
>   $ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/newbranch
>   $ rm .git/index
>
>  then commit.

I guess what Pedro is asking is if there isn't a builtin way to do this. Which, if I understand correctly, there isn't. Perhaps though something like "git branch -N newbranchname" which then creates a new parentless branch. It could just be a shell script that does the above, but I wonder if there are no side-effects of the above? It sounds somewhat 'messy' to remove the index? Too 'low level' to do for a user I mean, what if sometime in the future we decide to store something in the index that -is- important? I reckon it would be cleaner to add an option for this.

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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  1. Ulrik SverdrupMay 2, 2008
  2. Jakub NarebskiMay 3, 2008
  3. Sverre RabbelierMay 3, 2008
  4. Daniel BarkalowMay 4, 2008

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