Re: detached HEAD before root commit - possible?

SZEDER Gábor [off-list ref] writes:

I suspect that detaching HEAD before a root commit is not possible by
design.  What would HEAD contain then!?  'git checkout' seems to
corroborate:

$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/test/.git/
$ git checkout --detach
fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born

Is "git checkout --orphan" what you're looking for?

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