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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Subject: Re: detached HEAD before root commit - possible?
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:41:18 +0200
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SZEDER G=E1bor <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?

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Matthieu Moy
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