From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How can I create a commit without a parent?
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:02:33 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zl3radgl.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ron1-5383E3.00002602022010@news.gmane.org>
Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com> writes:
> SLSIA. git commit-tree insists on having at least one parent commit at
> the command line. From reverse-engineering it seems like I could do it
> by setting .git/HEAD to 'ref: refs/heads/some-nonexistent-branch' but
> mucking with HEAD directly like that feels kinda scary.
You have git-symbolic-ref to set HEAD directly (don't forget to remove
index).
Or you can set up / initialize separate (new) repository, create
commit there and then pull this new repository into current one.
P.S. Creating new root (parentless) commit isn't something that you do
on purpose, usually.
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-02 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-02 8:00 How can I create a commit without a parent? Ron Garret
2010-02-02 8:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-02 8:19 ` Ron Garret
2010-02-02 15:02 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2010-02-02 16:40 ` Jay Soffian
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