Re: How to create a branch without any links to the others branches

2008/8/29 Francis Moreau [off-list ref]:

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Alex Riesen [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

$ rm .git/HEAD
$ echo ref: refs/heads/NEW-BRANCH-NAME > .git/HEAD
$ git commit

well, it looks pretty git internal hack thing to me.

Shouldn't we add a new option to git-branch to do that, like:

   $ git branch --detach <new-branch>

Dunno. I never needed that explicitly. What do you want to do with it?