From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Bug: "git checkout -b" should be allowed in empty repo Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:09:11 +0100 Message-ID: <4F24E287.3040302@alum.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 29 07:09:34 2012 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 1RrNxB-0000Xl-Kn for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:09:30 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751286Ab2A2GJO (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:09:14 -0500 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:49019 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751114Ab2A2GJO (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:09:14 -0500 X-Envelope-From: mhagger@alum.mit.edu Received: from [192.168.69.134] (p54BEDE2E.dip.t-dialin.net [84.190.222.46]) (authenticated bits=0) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id q0T69BZH011307 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:09:12 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111108 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.16 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang_at_IN-Berlin_e.V. on 192.109.42.8 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: When starting a new repo, git seems to insist that the first commit be made on a branch named "master": $ git --version git version 1.7.9 $ git init git-test Initialized empty Git repository in /home/mhagger/tmp/git-test/.git/ $ cd git-test $ git checkout -b foo fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born I would call this a bug; the last command should be allowed. The plumbing allows it: $ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/foo Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@alum.mit.edu http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/