From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:41:18 GMT
Subject: Re: detached HEAD before root commit - possible?
Message-ID: <vpqr4frzt81.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20130623225505.GO20052@goldbirke>

SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> writes:

> I suspect that detaching HEAD before a root commit is not possible by
> design.  What would HEAD contain then!?  'git checkout' seems to
> corroborate:
>
> $ git init
> Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/test/.git/
> $ git checkout --detach
> fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born

Is "git checkout --orphan" what you're looking for?

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Matthieu Moy
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