From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: detached HEAD before root commit - possible?
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:41:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqr4frzt81.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130623225505.GO20052@goldbirke> ("SZEDER \=\?iso-8859-1\?Q\?G\?\= \=\?iso-8859-1\?Q\?\=E1bor\=22's\?\= message of "Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:55:05 +0200")
SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> writes:
> I suspect that detaching HEAD before a root commit is not possible by
> design. What would HEAD contain then!? 'git checkout' seems to
> corroborate:
>
> $ git init
> Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/test/.git/
> $ git checkout --detach
> fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born
Is "git checkout --orphan" what you're looking for?
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-24 10:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-23 22:55 detached HEAD before root commit - possible? SZEDER Gábor
2013-06-23 23:54 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-06-24 4:20 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-06-24 5:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-24 10:41 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
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