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Re: How to create independent branches

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 8, 2006, 18:28 UTC
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Peter Baumann wrote:
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> Another question. I'd like to create a totaly independent branch (like
> the "todo" branch in git). Is there a more user friendly way than doing
> 
> git-checkout -b todo
> rm .git/refs/heads/todo
> rm .git/index
> rm <all_files_in_your_workdir>
> 
> ... hack hack hack ...
> git-commit -a

Wouldn't it be better and more natural to go back to first commit, or even empty repository state at the beginning, and branch there? Or make separate repository?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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