From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: "Ákos, Tajti" <akos.tajti@intland.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git init doesn't create master branch
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 14:50:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqk3migdb1.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51A5F8E0.8060906@intland.com> (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22=C1kos=2C?= Tajti"'s message of "Wed, 29 May 2013 14:47:28 +0200")
"Ákos, Tajti" <akos.tajti@intland.com> writes:
> Dear List,
>
> the manual of git init says: "An initial HEAD file that references the
> HEAD of the master branch is also created."
>
> However, after creating the repository using git init there's no
> master branch.
Right, but HEAD still points to it ;-). We sometimes call this an
"unborn branch".
> How can make sure that master is created?
It will be created when you do the first commit. If you insist in having
master created before you actually start working, you can run:
git commit -m "Initial empty commit" --allow-empty
Right after "git init".
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-29 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-29 12:47 git init doesn't create master branch "Ákos, Tajti"
2013-05-29 12:50 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2013-05-29 12:54 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-29 13:01 ` "Ákos, Tajti"
2013-05-29 13:08 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-05-29 13:20 ` "Ákos, Tajti"
2013-05-29 13:20 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-29 18:37 ` Junio C Hamano
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