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creating a new branch without an ancestor

From
Michael Wookey <michaelwookey@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 5, 2010, 03:19 UTC
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Maybe I'm missing something from reading the docs, but I couldn't see how to create a new branch in an existing repo that has no ancestor. I would like to do something like what git.git does with some of the other ancillary branches like "man", "html", and "todo".

I was hoping to do something like "git branch --no-ancestor new-branch-name" but didn't see anything in the documentation that describes the necessary branch options.

Or, am I looking in the wrong place?
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