From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:34:53 GMT
Subject: Re: How to create a branch without any links to the others branches
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0808290534w5025b436s1087bb6a0ffcb16f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <38b2ab8a0808290237l703b0394rad8f42c091d7143f@mail.gmail.com>

On 8/29/08, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > $ rm .git/HEAD
>  > $ echo ref: refs/heads/NEW-BRANCH-NAME > .git/HEAD
>  > $ git commit
>  >
>
>
> well, it looks pretty git internal hack thing to me.

There is an old thread that uses "git symbolic-ref" or something
instead of "echo...", it would look less hacky. Or you could create a
new repository, make a new branch there, then pull that branch to your
repository.
-- 
Duy