On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 12:25 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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/; Ah, quite. > > > 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. The manpage mentions that an orphan branch is created. I guess that's where I got my "orphan commit" name.
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