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Pedro Melo <melo@simplicidade.org> writes:

> inside an existing repository I want to create a new branch without a
> parent commit. Is there a set of commands to do this?

Typically these commits come about because you created a completely
separate history elsewhere in a separate repository and fetched and/or
pulled from there.

So "a set of commands to do this" would be:

	go away
	git init
        build history as usual
	come back
        git fetch ..from that other repository..