On Tuesday 2006, November 21 18:21, Petr Baudis wrote: > (The answer is usually "create the branch in a separate repo and then > fetch it to the original one". But it feels a bit kludgy given the > otherwise seamless support for unrelated branches. (Not that I ever was > a big fan of unrelated long-lived branches in general.)) Just as kludgy, but I did this today by writing the name of the new branch in .git/HEAD then doing for file in $(git-ls-files); do git-update-index --force-remove $file; done Before creating the new files and "git-commit"ing. Andy -- Dr Andrew Parkins, M Eng (Hons), AMIEE andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx - 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