From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug: "git checkout -b" should be allowed in empty repo
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:01:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F27BBED.9080902@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F27ACED.2050709@alum.mit.edu>
Am 1/31/2012 9:57, schrieb Michael Haggerty:
> No, the idea is to avoid special casing by making 0{40} into a real (but
> empty) revision.
But then why not just have git init perform the equivalent of
c=$(echo "Start" | git commit-tree $empty_tree_sha1) &&
git update-ref refs/heads/master $c
People who dislike an empty initial commit can always use "git commit
--amend" for the first "real" commit.
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-31 10:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-29 6:09 Bug: "git checkout -b" should be allowed in empty repo Michael Haggerty
2012-01-29 6:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-29 7:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-30 6:38 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-01-30 18:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-30 20:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-30 21:50 ` Jeff King
2012-02-06 2:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-06 2:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-06 4:30 ` Jeff King
2012-02-06 4:42 ` Andrew Ardill
2012-02-06 5:06 ` Jeff King
2012-02-06 8:51 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-02-06 8:57 ` Jeff King
2012-02-06 18:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-06 20:14 ` Jeff King
2012-02-07 8:04 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-02-06 18:39 ` demerphq
2012-02-06 5:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-06 5:18 ` Jeff King
2012-02-06 5:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-06 5:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-06 5:45 ` Jeff King
2012-02-06 8:59 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-02-06 18:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-30 21:48 ` Jeff King
2012-02-06 1:26 ` [PATCH] branch --edit-description: protect against mistyped branch name Junio C Hamano
2012-02-06 1:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-06 4:20 ` Jeff King
2012-01-31 8:57 ` Bug: "git checkout -b" should be allowed in empty repo Michael Haggerty
2012-01-31 10:01 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2012-01-31 10:11 ` demerphq
2012-01-31 10:09 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-01-31 16:32 ` Michael Haggerty
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