On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:36:04PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I honestly do not know of a sane reason (other than "because I can") > anybody would want to _start_ a new root in a repository with an existing > history. And doing a "pull" with or without --rebase immediately after > starting a new root is doubly insane, as you say. IIRC, the reason I did it was to throw away history, starting a new root at the current state. Which is at least a little bit sane, though I think I might just do it with a graft and filter-branch these days. > But that is the kind of "ending up to have" I am talking about; it is not > something you _aim to_ create on purpose. If you want to _start_ a > separate history, and if you are sane, you would start the separate > history in a separate repository. Agreed. Let's not worry about it, then. -Peff -- 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