Rustom Mody venit, vidit, dixit 19.07.2009 14:53: > I want my first commit to be on a non-master branch. > So after the git init I do > $ git checkout -b newbranch > > I get > fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born > > Of course I can get by with making the first commit on master and then > switching. > > But wondering if I am missing something basic? You can do git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/newbranch and your first commit will be to that branch. (checkout as above tries to branch off the non-existing branch master.) Cheers, Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html