Luciano Rocha schrieb: > I'd like to create a new branch, without any pre-existing data, for > purposes similar to git's html/man/..... > > However, I've been unable to do that using the higher level tools. > > Even starting from an empty git rep, I can't create a branch: > > $ git init > Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ > $ git branch empty > fatal: Not a valid object name: 'master'. > > How were the different git.git branches created? There are two ways: 1. Plumbing level $ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/html $ rm .git/index ...commit new content... 2. Porcelain level $ mkdir ../html && cd ../html $ git init ...commit new content... $ cd - # go back $ git fetch ../html master:html -- Hannes -- 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
