> I wanted to do this just the other day, but I did it all inside the > one repo, and made some notes on the process here: > > http://rails.wincent.com/wiki/Creating_independent_branches_with_Git > > Basically, using "git write-tree" and "git commit-tree" plumbing. > > Cheers, > Wincent I think I've seen this done much simpler, in this blog post: http://madduck.net/blog/2007.07.11:creating-a-git-branch-without-ancestry/ Even though your instructions seem more complicated than they are since they mix setting up the parentless branch and preparing the first commit content. regards, ulrik (I am not on the list, please CC) -- 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