Ulrik Sverdrup <ulrik.sverdrup@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Wincent Colaiuta <win@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> 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. > > 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/ And it is mentioned in http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/BlogPosts, athough not yet in either GitTips or GitFaq. In short the solution is to create content-less branch using: $ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/newbranch $ rm .git/index then commit. > Even though your instructions seem more complicated than they are since > they mix setting up the parentless branch and preparing the first > commit content. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- 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
