Subject: Re: How to create independent branches

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 20:28:58 +0200

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?

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland