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From: bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: how to add an empty initial commit
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:06:22 +0800
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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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