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El 2/5/2008, a las 23:47, Junio C Hamano escribi=F3:
> Pedro Melo <melo@simplicidade.org> 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/o=
r
> 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..

I wanted to do this just the other day, but I did it all inside the =20
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