Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sun, 2011-09-25 at 07:15 -0700, vra5107 wrote: >> Hi >> >> I am currently in the process of converting a large hg repository. >> One of the changesets has no parents assigned. So to mirror that is it >> possible to create a git changeset that doesnot have a parent ? > > They're called commits in git, and yes it's possible. They are called > orphan commits and it's what you get when you do the first commit in the Just to set the terminology straight, s/orphan/root/; > repository. > > You can do this with 'git checkout --orphan somebranch'. Notice that the The orphan here refers to the fact that the next commit will not be a child of the current commit. The resulting one is a "root" commit. -- 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