On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > Last time I checked, those geneticists did not clone thin air. They > > > always waited until they had something to clone. > > > > But we're not geneticists, and I think the above usage should "just work > > (tm)". > > I am still convinced that it is not very intelligent to start your > development from a non-existing branch. Well, that's an orthogonal question and I'm not providing any opinion about that. > But since you're one of the people knowing git _internals_ pretty well, > here's another reason just for you why this cannot be done: There is no > way to find out where the HEAD points to. So? Why couldn't you just do the 'git remote add' dance implicitly in that case anyway? Nicolas - 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
