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From: Ulrik Sverdrup <ulrik.sverdrup@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: win@wincent.com
Subject: Re: Parent-less branches
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 01:20:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080502232008.GA20092@ulrik-ibook> (raw)

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

I think I've seen this done much simpler, in this blog post:

http://madduck.net/blog/2007.07.11:creating-a-git-branch-without-ancestry/

Even though your instructions seem more complicated than they are since
they mix setting up the parentless branch and preparing the first
commit content.

regards,
ulrik

(I am not on the list, please CC)

             reply	other threads:[~2008-05-02 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-02 23:20 Ulrik Sverdrup [this message]
2008-05-03  0:17 ` Parent-less branches Jakub Narebski
2008-05-03  0:46   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-05-04  5:50     ` Daniel Barkalow
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-02 21:05 Pedro Melo
2008-05-02 21:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-02 22:32   ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-05-02 23:04     ` Pedro Melo
2008-05-02 23:04   ` Pedro Melo
2008-05-02 23:34     ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-05-03 14:05   ` Johannes Schindelin

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