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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: Bug: "git checkout -b" should be allowed in empty repo
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 03:57:07 -0500
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On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:51:56AM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote:

> On 02/06/2012 06:06 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> >I don't recall seeing anybody complain seriously about it in the past
> >six years of git's existence.
> 
> In the real-world situation when I noticed this bug, I wasn't trying to
> use a nonstandard name for "master".  What I was doing is importing a
> snapshot of some code from another non-git project onto a "vendor
> branch", which I knew I would later want to merge into my own work
> (which I planned to do on master).

Thanks, that sounds like a very reasonable use case. I stand corrected.

(For some reason I thought you ran across it accidentally while mucking
with "--edit-description", since were talking about that an unborn
branches in a nearby thread).

-Peff

PS I probably would have done it as:

     git init vendor
     cd vendor
     import import import
     cd ..

     git init project
     cd project
     git fetch ../vendor master:vendor

   but I don't think there's anything wrong with your approach (in fact,
   it's slightly more efficient).