From: Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:19:24 GMT
Subject: Re: How can I create a commit without a parent?
Message-ID: <ron1-2FA457.00192402022010@news.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vwryw6p16.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

In article <7vwryw6p16.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>,
 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com> writes:
> 
> > git commit-tree insists on having at least one parent commit at 
> > the command line.
> 
> Incorrect.  "git commit" might but "git commit-tree" does.  Perhaps you
> are forgetting that the first object name is a tree to be wrapped.

No, I didn't forget that.  I forgot to omit the -p flag.  Doh!

> A short answer is that you don't create a root commit twice in a single
> repository, period.

Why not?  I could easily create an empty root commit and multiple 
branches off that.  (Maybe that's a better way to go.)  What would be 
the difference?

rg