On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 10:19 AM Craig H Maynard <chmaynard@xxxxxx> wrote: > Does the git init command really need to create a default branch? Perhaps that step could be left to the user. The HEAD pseudo-ref must exist and must contain a valid OID or branch name. (If it does not exist, Git says that the directory is not a repository. Perhaps this test could be weakened, but that's definitely a fairly big change.) In a new, empty repository there are no valid OIDs, so HEAD must contain a branch name. The branch itself need not exist, but whatever name is in HEAD is the branch that will be created when the user makes the first commit. Chris
