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How can I create a commit without a parent?

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From: Ron Garret
Subject: How can I create a commit without a parent?
Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 1:00 am

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.

Thanks,
rg

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How can I create a commit without a parent?, Ron Garret, (Tue Feb 2, 1:00 am)
Re: How can I create a commit without a parent?, Junio C Hamano, (Tue Feb 2, 1:05 am)
Re: How can I create a commit without a parent?, Ron Garret, (Tue Feb 2, 1:19 am)
Re: How can I create a commit without a parent?, Jakub Narebski, (Tue Feb 2, 8:02 am)
Re: How can I create a commit without a parent?, Jay Soffian, (Tue Feb 2, 9:40 am)