On Sat, 5 May 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 5 May 2007, Guido Ostkamp wrote: > > > $ mkdir test > > $ cd test > > $ git init > > Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ > > $ git branch experimental > > fatal: Not a valid object name: 'master'. > > > > So, it seems it is not possible to create a named branch on an empty > > repository. > > Actually, it is not possible to branch from a non-existing branch. So, > this is somewhat expected from my POV. This leaves open the question of how you make your initial commit in a branch that isn't master. I think the answer should be: $ git checkout -b experimental warning: You appear to be on a branch yet to be born. warning: Forcing checkout of HEAD. fatal: just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees? Which should probably be: $ git checkout -b experimental warning: You appear to be on a branch yet to be born. warning: Putting you on a new branch yet to be born. And leaving .git/HEAD pointing to refs/heads/experimental instead of refs/heads/master, with refs/heads/ still empty. $ git branch experimental Should probably give a more informative error message, but branches with no commits that aren't the current branch has no existance at all, so it can't work to create them without switching to them. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* - 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