On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Ron Garret <ron1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I guess you're looking to do it with plumbing, but with porcelain the way I'd do it is: $ git init foo $ git init bar $ cd bar $ git commit --allow-empty -m "empty bar root commit" $ cd ../foo $ git commit --allow-empty -m "empty foo root commit" $ git fetch ../bar master:bar j. -- 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