how to start with non-master branch?

From: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 19, 2009, 12:53 UTC
Message-ID: <f46c52560907190553x4e21ffbdn6d55c43f2d6b08ad@mail.gmail.com>

I want my first commit to be on a non-master branch. So after the git init I do $ git checkout -b newbranch

I get fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born

Of course I can get by with making the first commit on master and then switching.

But wondering if I am missing something basic?

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.