On Thu, February 4, 2010 20:19, Michael Wookey wrote: > 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? I do this all the time for various reasons, so I made myself a "git-emptybranch" command and stuck it in my path. Besides the error checking, this just creates a new ref and clears the index so you can start from a clean slate. No actual files are deleted from the work-tree. $ cat ~/bin/git-emptybranch #!/bin/sh if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then 2<&1 echo "usage: git emptybranch <new_branch>" exit 1 fi if ! git check-ref-format refs/heads/"$1"; then 2<&1 echo "fatal: '$1' is not a valid branch name." exit 1 fi git symbolic-ref -m "git emptybranch $1" HEAD refs/heads/"$1" git rm --cached -r -q --ignore-unmatch -- '*' -- 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