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From: bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>
Subject: how to add an empty initial commit
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:52:24 +0800
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I want to insert an empty initial commit so that I can rebase and edit
files in the real initial commit. There is a --root option in
git-rebase but I can not find example of how to use it. 

I googled some said it needs to create a new branch, I tried but it
failed to merge.

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