From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SZEDER =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor?= Subject: detached HEAD before root commit - possible? Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:55:05 +0200 Message-ID: <20130623225505.GO20052@goldbirke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 24 00:55:15 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UqtBi-0001eb-Rc for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:55:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752015Ab3FWWzI convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Jun 2013 18:55:08 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:50718 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751803Ab3FWWzH (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Jun 2013 18:55:07 -0400 Received: from localhost6.localdomain6 (g227076062.adsl.alicedsl.de [92.227.76.62]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MHaGK-1Urya5238W-003fRU; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:55:05 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:maGQCavN8Rg4/ZYSGd1/cfgp4413O+J72zZjf7xQUBn RU9qFSZ58iD6CYgXz6HK9y7LuKHlS/F1GFMc+GAlOTfpWFa0Fj HYkAHLlaW3sGno1NYS9FdkgjgJ81PD1rDzcn4rtx6DCVevdnT8 Z+u0x3txvZ8B8xgUNTygkP5Acx5l3g9DYQQzx2klCau+rDW0jj zMBekbCql5/Yd+u+9wNxMJSx1cBzGbBT9JWvF5pfDEK7grxy8A R3gL0S2GJ3NG4FlfoaWI0ED5mtRNUtyCIVzLmSOlnbNYV+DLlx 5aC5YosrYTZYcf/6+BEqyIKe/LBzosWVECLy63xZod1eYNNOeA Txae7rcuX0v4QkOmsI6HKa5yx9twVXD8ANfQBZGNa Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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, G=E1bor