From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Git branch bug Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 18:42:12 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Guido Ostkamp X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat May 05 18:42:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HkNLB-0005yX-1N for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 18:42:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934058AbXEEQme (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 May 2007 12:42:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933965AbXEEQmd (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 May 2007 12:42:33 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:43304 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S934058AbXEEQmd (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 May 2007 12:42:33 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 05 May 2007 16:42:31 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO localhost) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp047) with SMTP; 05 May 2007 18:42:31 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+zS41rgsmzQ8t2AdGBqUci9i+n5E6BIOq5xYBNi9 AWk4xlo7hBj+HN X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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