Re: Git branch bug

On Sat, 5 May 2007, Guido Ostkamp wrote:

quoted

$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
$ git branch experimental
fatal: Not a valid object name: 'master'.

So, it seems it is not possible to create a named branch on an empty
repository.

Actually, it is not possible to branch from a non-existing branch. So,
this is somewhat expected from my POV.

From a git beginners point of view, I would expect that the 'master' 

branch is automatically created when performing the 'git init'. Why is 
this not the case?

Regards

Guido