On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Eric Raible wrote: > >> http://www.gitcasts.com/posts/empty-branches > > Beware! This is one of the sites that triggered my mail about considering > teaching plumbing to new users harmful. > > In other words, I think that these "git casts" are not really the best way > to teach Git to new users, but rather confusing. > > Which is a pity, because they are nicely done otherwise. > > Ciao, > Dscho I understand your concern, but if you treat that particular gitcast simple as a recipe to be followed it accomplishes the goal in the in the most straightforward way I've seen. A new-user pure-porcelain way would be to branch then delete all of the files in the branch. Which seems a bit dirty to me. Or is there some more intuitive porcelain-ish way of creating a new empty branch that I haven't thought of? - Eric -- 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
