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Cc: Tong Sun <suntong@cpan.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
> Tong Sun writes:
> > Thanks a lot for the comment.
> > 
> > Could you elaborate it a bit with actual commands, starting from 'git
> > pull git://remote/project master' please?
> 
> $ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/rollout
> $ rm .git/index # Git recreates it automatically anyway
> $ git add LICENSE
> $ git commit -m "Add LICENSE" # root commit
> $ # git add ... git commit cycle

Ramkumar, in git 1.7.2 you can simply use "git checkout --orphan newbranch".

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Jakub Narebski
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