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Re: How can I create a commit without a parent?

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 2, 2010, 15:02 UTC
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Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com> writes:
> SLSIA.  git commit-tree insists on having at least one parent commit at 
> the command line.  From reverse-engineering it seems like I could do it 
> by setting .git/HEAD to 'ref: refs/heads/some-nonexistent-branch' but 
> mucking with HEAD directly like that feels kinda scary.

You have git-symbolic-ref to set HEAD directly (don't forget to remove index).

Or you can set up / initialize separate (new) repository, create commit there and then pull this new repository into current one.

P.S. Creating new root (parentless) commit isn't something that you do on purpose, usually.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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