How to create a branch without any links to the others branches

Hello,

I'm wondering how such branches are created in a repository.

For example, how todo, man and html branches from the git repository have been created ?

Looking at git-branch man, a "start-point:" must be specified if not the current branch is assumed.

The only solution I'm seeing is to create a new repository with these 'unrelated' branches and pull them from the other repository.

Is this correct ?

Thanks

2008/8/29 Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>:

Almost:

$ rm .git/HEAD $ echo ref: refs/heads/NEW-BRANCH-NAME > .git/HEAD $ git commit

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:

well, it looks pretty git internal hack thing to me.

Shouldn't we add a new option to git-branch to do that, like:

    $ git branch --detach <new-branch>

?

2008/8/29 Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>:

Dunno. I never needed that explicitly. What do you want to do with it?

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:

I'd like to create branches as Junio did for html, man and todo ones.

Thanks

"Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:

If that is the objective...

There is no reason whatsoever for these unrelated branches to _ORIGINATE_ from the same source repository. The repositories you see at kernel.org and repo.or.cz are merely public distribution points, and I push them into a single repository at each of these places merely for downloaders convenience, from separate repositories.

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

Well I find sometimes convenient to embed some temporary working files and the project files at the same place.

OK.

thanks

On 8/29/08, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote:

There is an old thread that uses "git symbolic-ref" or something instead of "echo...", it would look less hacky. Or you could create a new repository, make a new branch there, then pull that branch to your repository.

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:

OK.

yes it's the only soultion I could come up with but I would have assumed git-branch to be able to do that.

Thanks