Hi, On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Luciano Rocha wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 01:52:00PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Luciano Rocha wrote: > > > > > I'd like to create a new branch, without any pre-existing data, for > > > purposes similar to git's html/man/..... > > > > If there is nothing to branch from, there is nothing to branch from. > > > > You might want to rename your branch (once you have something). > > > > But then, I do not even understand why you bother. You can always > > push to a branch of a different name, and have your principal branch > > being "master" locally. > > It's not a matter of pushing/pulling. I'm referring to local branches > only. > > I'd have no problems with the first branches. But when I wanted to > create the third, that shares no files with the others, I stumbled with > the problem of creating a clean branch. I really didn't want to create a > branch them do "git rm .". > > Johannes's tricks did the thing. Thank you all. My tricks? I know, you do not have to reply, but you should have taken a bit more care there. BTW the recommended way is really to go outside and push (slight variation on Hannes' 2nd method): # create new repository $ mkdir new-root && cd new-root && git init # initialise master branch $ vi <file> && git add <file> && git commit <file> # push it into the original repository as a new branch $ git push .. master:refs/heads/<new-branch> Ciao, Dscho -- 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
