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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2009-08-30 0:52 how to add an empty initial commit bill lam
2009-08-30 1:39 ` Sean Estabrooks
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