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From: bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>
To: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to add an empty initial commit
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:06:22 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090831000622.GA3993@debian.b2j> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP13B5A682834BA2E926F610AEF30@phx.gbl>

On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Sean Estabrooks wrote:
> This sounds like a hard way to go about things.  Instead, you can edit
> the files as you wish, "git add" the new edits, and then use
> "git commit --amend" to alter the initial commit.   Don't think rebase
> would help in the situation you describe.

Sean,

Yes, you are correct. git-rebase does not help much.  It has to initialise
another empty git repo and copy all commits to there.

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      reply	other threads:[~2009-08-31  0:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-30  0:52 how to add an empty initial commit bill lam
2009-08-30  1:39 ` Sean Estabrooks
2009-08-31  0:06   ` bill lam [this message]

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