Re: importing two different trees into a fresh git repo

"Constantine A. Murenin" [off-list ref] writes:

I have two distinct trees that were not managed by any RCS, and I'd
like to import them into a single repository into two separate orphan
branches, then make sense of what's in there, merge, and unify into
'master'.

(To give some context, it's /etc/nginx config files from nginx/1.0.12
on Debian 6 and nginx/1.2.2 on OpenBSD 5.2.)

As these come from two totally separate sources, I'd find it more
natural to do two repositories, deb-nginx-conf and obsd-nginx-conf,
each with one commit and then pull one into the other (or pull both
to master-nginx-conf if you really wanted to), to me.