Re: commit 0? (or: create new empty branch)

[Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>]

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On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 01:52:00PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Luciano Rocha wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to create a new branch, without any pre-existing data, for
> > purposes similar to git's html/man/.....
> 
> If there is nothing to branch from, there is nothing to branch from.
> 
> You might want to rename your branch (once you have something).
> 
> But then, I do not even understand why you bother.  You can always push to 
> a branch of a different name, and have your principal branch being 
> "master" locally.

It's not a matter of pushing/pulling. I'm referring to local branches
only.

What I'd like to have is, using util-linux-ng as an example:

branch master: util-linux-ng plus local patches
branch vendor: util-linux-ng upstream
branch metadata: information on util-linux-ng, how to compile,
    dependencies, etc.

I'd have no problems with the first branches. But when I wanted to
create the third, that shares no files with the others, I stumbled with
the problem of creating a clean branch. I really didn't want to create a
branch them do "git rm .".

Johannes's tricks did the thing. Thank you all.

Regards,
Luciano Rocha

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Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Eurotux Informática, S.A. <http://www.eurotux.com/>

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