SZEDER Gábor <szeder@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I suspect that detaching HEAD before a root commit is not possible by > design. What would HEAD contain then!? 'git checkout' seems to > corroborate: > > $ git init > Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/test/.git/ > $ git checkout --detach > fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born Is "git checkout --orphan" what you're looking for? -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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