Pedro Melo <melo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > inside an existing repository I want to create a new branch without a > parent commit. Is there a set of commands to do this? Typically these commits come about because you created a completely separate history elsewhere in a separate repository and fetched and/or pulled from there. So "a set of commands to do this" would be: go away git init build history as usual come back git fetch ..from that other repository.. -- 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