From: Larry D'Anna <larry@elder-gods.org>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Wookey <michaelwookey@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: creating a new branch without an ancestor
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:24:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100205032429.GA23285@cthulhu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d2e97e801002041919r2043d05cjfb114a466605d9a1@mail.gmail.com>
* Michael Wookey (michaelwookey@gmail.com) [100204 22:20]:
> Maybe I'm missing something from reading the docs, but I couldn't see
> how to create a new branch in an existing repo that has no ancestor. I
> would like to do something like what git.git does with some of the
> other ancillary branches like "man", "html", and "todo".
>
> I was hoping to do something like "git branch --no-ancestor
> new-branch-name" but didn't see anything in the documentation that
> describes the necessary branch options.
>
> Or, am I looking in the wrong place?
git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/whatever
That'll leave your index and working tree alone of course, so if you did a
commit right after that it would match the content of your current branch but
not the history.
--larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-05 10:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-05 3:19 creating a new branch without an ancestor Michael Wookey
2010-02-05 3:24 ` Larry D'Anna [this message]
2010-02-05 3:32 ` Jay Soffian
2010-02-05 18:38 ` Wesley J. Landaker
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