SLSIA. git commit-tree insists on having at least one parent commit at the command line. From reverse-engineering it seems like I could do it by setting .git/HEAD to 'ref: refs/heads/some-nonexistent-branch' but mucking with HEAD directly like that feels kinda scary. Thanks, rg -- 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