Re: detached HEAD before root commit - possible?

SZEDER Gábor sze...@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

detached HEAD before root commit - possible?

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 Are there some

Re: detached HEAD before root commit - possible?

Hi, SZEDER Gábor wrote: $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/test/.git/ $ git checkout --detach fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born Are there some plumbing commands and options that would still allow this, or can I rely on that that it's impossible?

Re: detached HEAD before root commit - possible?

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: In other words, HEAD always either points to an unborn or existing branch or an existing commit. It's not clear to me what it would mean to detach from an unborn branch. I think it should mean that the next commit

Re: detached HEAD before root commit - possible?

Martin von Zweigbergk martinv...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: In other words, HEAD always either points to an unborn or existing branch or an existing commit. It's not clear to me what it would mean to detach from an unborn