On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Larry D'Anna <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > * Michael Wookey (michaelwookey@xxxxxxxxx) [100204 22:20]: >> Maybe I'm missing something from reading the docs, but I couldn't see >> how to create a new branch in an existing repo that has no ancestor. I >> would like to do something like what git.git does with some of the >> other ancillary branches like "man", "html", and "todo". >> >> I was hoping to do something like "git branch --no-ancestor >> new-branch-name" but didn't see anything in the documentation that >> describes the necessary branch options. >> >> Or, am I looking in the wrong place? > > git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/whatever > > That'll leave your index and working tree alone of course, so if you did a > commit right after that it would match the content of your current branch but > not the history. You can also create the branch in a new repo, then just fetch that into your existing repo. 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