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From: "Eric Raible" <raible@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: making a branch with just one file and keeping its whole history
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:22:53 -0700
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On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Eric Raible wrote:
>
>> http://www.gitcasts.com/posts/empty-branches
>
> Beware!  This is one of the sites that triggered my mail about considering
> teaching plumbing to new users harmful.
>
> In other words, I think that these "git casts" are not really the best way
> to teach Git to new users, but rather confusing.
>
> Which is a pity, because they are nicely done otherwise.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho

I understand your concern, but if you treat that particular gitcast
simple as a recipe to be followed it accomplishes the goal in the
in the most straightforward way I've seen.

A new-user pure-porcelain way would be to branch then delete all
of the files in the branch.  Which seems a bit dirty to me.

Or is there some more intuitive porcelain-ish way of creating
a new empty branch that I haven't thought of?

- Eric