In article <7vwryw6p16.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ron Garret <ron1@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > git commit-tree insists on having at least one parent commit at > > the command line. > > Incorrect. "git commit" might but "git commit-tree" does. Perhaps you > are forgetting that the first object name is a tree to be wrapped. No, I didn't forget that. I forgot to omit the -p flag. Doh! > A short answer is that you don't create a root commit twice in a single > repository, period. Why not? I could easily create an empty root commit and multiple branches off that. (Maybe that's a better way to go.) What would be the difference? 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