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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to create independent branches
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 20:28:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e18vcv$rhf$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20060408180244.GA4807@xp.machine.de

Peter Baumann wrote:

> Another question. I'd like to create a totaly independent branch (like
> the "todo" branch in git). Is there a more user friendly way than doing
> 
> git-checkout -b todo
> rm .git/refs/heads/todo
> rm .git/index
> rm <all_files_in_your_workdir>
> 
> ... hack hack hack ...
> git-commit -a

Wouldn't it be better and more natural to go back to first commit, or even
empty repository state at the beginning, and branch there? Or make separate
repository?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-08 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-07 18:47 Can't export whole repo as patches Peter Baumann
2006-04-07 19:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-08 18:02   ` How to create independent branches Peter Baumann
2006-04-08 18:28     ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-04-09  8:11       ` Peter Baumann
2006-04-09  8:22         ` Peter Baumann
2006-04-08 20:49     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-08 20:57       ` Petr Baudis
2006-04-08 21:00         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-08 22:09         ` Johannes Schindelin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-08 23:15 colin

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