From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Guido Ostkamp <git@ostkamp.fastmail.fm>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git branch bug
Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 18:42:12 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705051841200.4015@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705051823300.13988@bianca.dialin.t-online.de>
Hi,
On Sat, 5 May 2007, Guido Ostkamp wrote:
> $ mkdir test
> $ cd test
> $ git init
> Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
> $ git branch experimental
> fatal: Not a valid object name: 'master'.
>
> So, it seems it is not possible to create a named branch on an empty
> repository.
Actually, it is not possible to branch from a non-existing branch. So,
this is somewhat expected from my POV.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-05 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-05 16:24 Git branch bug Guido Ostkamp
2007-05-05 16:42 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-05-05 17:05 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-05-06 6:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-06 16:16 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-05-05 17:44 ` Guido Ostkamp
2007-05-05 17:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
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