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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: Bug: "git checkout -b" should be allowed in empty repo
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:14:40 -0500
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Cc: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
	Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
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On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 10:17:55AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > PS I probably would have done it as:
> >
> >      git init vendor
> >      cd vendor
> >      import import import
> >      cd ..
> >
> >      git init project
> >      cd project
> >      git fetch ../vendor master:vendor
> >
> >    but I don't think there's anything wrong with your approach (in fact,
> >    it's slightly more efficient).
> 
> Probably I am slower than my usual slow self this morning. Does Michael's
> approach go like this:
> 
> 	git init project
>         cd project
>         import import import
>         git branch -m vendor
>         git checkout -b master
> 
> to fork from third-party codebase?

I thought it would have been:

  git init project
  cd project
  git checkout -b vendor
  import import import
  git checkout -b master
  modify modify modify

but he can probably say more.

-Peff