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From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira.uka.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: detached HEAD before root commit - possible?
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:55:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130623225505.GO20052@goldbirke> (raw)

I suspect that detaching HEAD before a root commit is not possible by
design.  What would HEAD contain then!?  'git checkout' seems to
corroborate:

$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/test/.git/
$ git checkout --detach
fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born

Are there some plumbing commands and options that would still allow
this, or can I rely on that that it's impossible?


Thanks,
Gábor

             reply	other threads:[~2013-06-23 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-23 22:55 SZEDER Gábor [this message]
2013-06-23 23:54 ` detached HEAD before root commit - possible? Jonathan Nieder
2013-06-24  4:20   ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-06-24  5:01     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-24 10:41 ` Matthieu Moy

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