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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: Bug: "git checkout -b" should be allowed in empty repo
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:01:17 +0100
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Am 1/31/2012 9:57, schrieb Michael Haggerty:
> No, the idea is to avoid special casing by making 0{40} into a real (but
> empty) revision.

But then why not just have git init perform the equivalent of

  c=$(echo "Start" | git commit-tree $empty_tree_sha1) &&
  git update-ref refs/heads/master $c

People who dislike an empty initial commit can always use "git commit
--amend" for the first "real" commit.

-- Hannes