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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Pedro Melo <melo@simplicidade.org>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Parent-less branches
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 15:05:40 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805031504390.30431@racer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vskx0wf8i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Fri, 2 May 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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.

It is funny.  I really like that approach, but too many people seem to be 
married to the concept that you have to stay in the same working 
directory, and rather play dirty tricks with the plumbing.

Ciao,
Dscho

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-03 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-02 21:05 Parent-less branches Pedro Melo
2008-05-02 21:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-02 22:32   ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-05-02 23:04     ` Pedro Melo
2008-05-02 23:04   ` Pedro Melo
2008-05-02 23:34     ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-05-03 14:05   ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-02 23:20 Ulrik Sverdrup
2008-05-03  0:17 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-05-03  0:46   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-05-04  5:50     ` Daniel Barkalow

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