From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:02:33 GMT
Subject: Re: How can I create a commit without a parent?
Message-ID: <m3zl3radgl.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <ron1-5383E3.00002602022010@news.gmane.org>

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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