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From: "Carlos Martín Nieto" <cmn@elego.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: vra5107 <venkatram.akkineni@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can a git changeset be created with no parent
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:41:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1317073309.5579.9.camel@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vaa9r2jii.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 12:25 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, 2011-09-25 at 07:15 -0700, vra5107 wrote:
> >> Hi
> >> 
> >>         I am currently in the process of converting a large hg repository.
> >> One of the changesets has no parents assigned. So to mirror that is it
> >> possible to create a git changeset that doesnot have a parent ?
> >
> > They're called commits in git, and yes it's possible. They are called
> > orphan commits and it's what you get when you do the first commit in the
> 
> Just to set the terminology straight, s/orphan/root/;

Ah, quite.

> 
> > repository.
> >
> > You can do this with 'git checkout --orphan somebranch'. Notice that the
> 
> The orphan here refers to the fact that the next commit will not be a
> child of the current commit. The resulting one is a "root" commit.

The manpage mentions that an orphan branch is created. I guess that's
where I got my "orphan commit" name.


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-26 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-25 14:15 Can a git changeset be created with no parent vra5107
2011-09-25 14:33 ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-09-25 14:33 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2011-09-26 19:25   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-26 21:41     ` Carlos Martín Nieto [this message]
2011-09-27 14:43       ` [PATCH] Docs: git checkout --orphan: `root commit' and `branch head' Michael Witten
2011-09-27 15:02         ` Matthieu Moy
2011-09-27 15:46           ` [PATCH v2] " Michael Witten
2011-09-27 16:01             ` Matthieu Moy
2011-09-27 16:13               ` Michael Witten
2011-09-27 16:53                 ` Matthieu Moy
2011-09-27 17:09                   ` Michael Witten
2011-09-27 20:59               ` Philip Oakley
2011-09-28 16:23                 ` [PATCH v3] " Michael Witten
2011-09-28 20:34                   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-29 15:52                     ` Michael Witten
2011-09-29 15:44                       ` [PATCH v4] Docs: git checkout --orphan: Copyedit, and s/root commit/orphan branch/ Michael Witten
2011-09-29 16:44                         ` Michael Witten
2011-09-29 20:05                         ` Philip Oakley
2011-09-29 18:11                       ` In favor of "git commit --no-parent" Junio C Hamano
2011-09-29 18:52                         ` Michael Witten
2011-09-29 18:59                         ` [PATCH] Documentation/git-checkout.txt: Explain --orphan without introducing an undefined "orphan branch" Junio C Hamano
2011-09-29 19:02                           ` Michael Witten
2011-09-29 21:02                         ` In favor of "git commit --no-parent" Phil Hord
2011-09-29 21:28                           ` Michael Witten
2011-09-29 21:50                             ` Phil Hord
2011-09-29 22:01                               ` Michael Witten
     [not found]                         ` <CABURp0q8YhTS-GDYOANEa19P-V2wf_EUTo=RHqnhDB619w=y-w@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                           ` <7vd3ejrqin.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
2011-09-29 21:54                             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-29 22:07                               ` Phil Hord
2011-09-29 22:29                                 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-29 22:32                                   ` Michael Witten
2011-09-29 23:08                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-30  0:51                                   ` Michael Witten
2011-09-30  2:28                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-29 22:07                               ` Michael Witten
2011-09-27 15:49         ` [PATCH] Docs: git checkout --orphan: `root commit' and `branch head' Michael J Gruber
2011-09-27 16:02           ` Michael Witten
2011-09-27 17:25             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-27 17:50               ` Michael Witten
2011-09-27 20:34               ` Eric Raible
2011-09-27 21:31                 ` Philip Oakley
2011-09-27 21:42                   ` Jeff King
2011-09-27 23:28                     ` Michael Witten
2011-09-27 23:35                       ` Jeff King
2011-09-27 23:44                         ` Michael Witten
2011-09-28  0:32                         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-28 13:40                           ` Michael Witten
2011-09-28 13:45                             ` Matthieu Moy
2011-09-28 13:50                               ` Michael Witten
2011-09-28 14:09                                 ` Matthieu Moy
2011-09-28 14:35                                   ` Michael Witten
2011-09-28 14:45                                     ` Matthieu Moy
2011-09-28 15:06                                       ` Michael Witten
2011-09-28 18:17                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-28  4:04               ` Jay Soffian
2011-09-28  4:37                 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-28  8:00               ` Michael J Gruber

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