Re: erratic behavior commit --allow-empty

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Oct 3, 2012, 14:52 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqr4pfboam.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <CAB9Jk9Ar3PbbBu-8AEBsNGDAUeghyi2maLCbdZjSdpMCWseq6w@mail.gmail.com>

Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@gmail.com> writes:

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> Hi Matthiew,
>
>>
>> You don't understand what an orphan branch is.
>
> I do not think so. I wanted to create a branch with a commit that has no parent,
> and I think that this is called "orphan branch".

Yes, and this is what you did.

> I wanted also to have another branch, pointing to a different commit,
> the difference
> being that this contains binaries, and the other does not.

If they contain different content, they will be different commits, with different sha1.

> So, having two references pointing to the same commit is not a problem
> for me,

So, you have no problem.

End of discussion for me, sorry.

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/