From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:11:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Recommended work flow with git to send in patches
Message-ID: <m339v4luk2.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20100727164500.GD5351@kytes>

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
> Tong Sun writes:
> > Thanks a lot for the comment.
> > 
> > Could you elaborate it a bit with actual commands, starting from 'git
> > pull git://remote/project master' please?
> 
> $ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/rollout
> $ rm .git/index # Git recreates it automatically anyway
> $ git add LICENSE
> $ git commit -m "Add LICENSE" # root commit
> $ # git add ... git commit cycle

Ramkumar, in git 1.7.2 you can simply use "git checkout --orphan newbranch".

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Jakub Narebski
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