On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Andy Gibbs <andyg1...@hotmail.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to create a commit without a parent, effectively so that I
>>> can create a separate stream inside my repository, in no way linked to
>>> trunk and all its branches.
>>>
>>> I cannot find in the documentation how to do this, but I know that it is
>>> possible because Jan Nijtmans has managed to do it here:
>>> http://fosclipse.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/core/timeline?n=20&b=2012-07-23
>>
>>
>> i'm not sure if there's an official way to do it, but you could
>> programatically generate an empty manifest (this could be templated, using
>> 'md5sum' to add the z-card), store it in the blob table, and run a rebuild.
>> That "should" do it, i think. Something like manually typing out....
>>
>> ------------------------
>> C my\scommit
>> D 2015-01-22T01:02:03
>> U yourname
>> ------------------------
>>
>
> Optionally:
>
> R d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
>
> that's the initial empty md5 hash, which is the R-card for checkins with
> no files.
>

Sorry, I didn't see you had already answered the same! (I had started
writing my answer before you answered, so it didn't refresh)

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