From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: erratic behavior commit --allow-empty Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:52:49 +0200 Message-ID: References: <506AA51E.9010209@viscovery.net> <7vzk449449.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vhaqc7in6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <90464C79DA97415C9D66846A77ECAA4A@PhilipOakley> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Philip Oakley , Junio C Hamano , Johannes Sixt , git To: Angelo Borsotti X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 03 16:53:12 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TJQJv-0002M8-7G for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:53:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756248Ab2JCOwz (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2012 10:52:55 -0400 Received: from mx1.imag.fr ([129.88.30.5]:51250 "EHLO shiva.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753605Ab2JCOwy (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2012 10:52:54 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by shiva.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q93ElJVn007854 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 3 Oct 2012 16:47:19 +0200 Received: from anie.imag.fr ([129.88.7.32] helo=anie) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TJQJd-0005EO-Sn; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:52:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Angelo Borsotti's message of "Wed, 3 Oct 2012 16:46:51 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (shiva.imag.fr [129.88.30.5]); Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:47:20 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: q93ElJVn007854 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1349880440.26449@RsSPgX5cgA1+V+9k+wuIzw Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Angelo Borsotti writes: > Hi Matthiew, > >> >> You don't understand what an orphan branch is. > > I do not think so. I wanted to create a branch with a commit that has no parent, > and I think that this is called "orphan branch". Yes, and this is what you did. > I wanted also to have another branch, pointing to a different commit, > the difference > being that this contains binaries, and the other does not. If they contain different content, they will be different commits, with different sha1. > So, having two references pointing to the same commit is not a problem > for me, So, you have no problem. End of discussion for me, sorry. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/