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From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: creating a new branch without an ancestor
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On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Larry D'Anna <larry@elder-gods.org> wrote:
> * Michael Wookey (michaelwookey@gmail.com) [100204 22:20]:
>> Maybe I'm missing something from reading the docs, but I couldn't see
>> how to create a new branch in an existing repo that has no ancestor. I
>> would like to do something like what git.git does with some of the
>> other ancillary branches like "man", "html", and "todo".
>>
>> I was hoping to do something like "git branch --no-ancestor
>> new-branch-name" but didn't see anything in the documentation that
>> describes the necessary branch options.
>>
>> Or, am I looking in the wrong place?
>
> git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/whatever
>
> That'll leave your index and working tree alone of course, so if you did a
> commit right after that it would match the content of your current branch but
> not the history.

You can also create the branch in a new repo, then just fetch that
into your existing repo.

j.