Re: fatal: bad revision 'HEAD'

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:36:04PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

I honestly do not know of a sane reason (other than "because I can")
anybody would want to _start_ a new root in a repository with an existing
history.  And doing a "pull" with or without --rebase immediately after
starting a new root is doubly insane, as you say.

IIRC, the reason I did it was to throw away history, starting a new root
at the current state. Which is at least a little bit sane, though I
think I might just do it with a graft and filter-branch these days.

But that is the kind of "ending up to have" I am talking about; it is not
something you _aim to_ create on purpose.  If you want to _start_ a
separate history, and if you are sane, you would start the separate
history in a separate repository.

Agreed. Let's not worry about it, then.

-Peff