Re:Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today
by dearrifling on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @04:15PM
(#19435281)
You can have unrelated commits and roots in a single git repo. No need for empty root commit.
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Re:Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today
by yebyen on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @04:52PM
(#19435727)
I think the payoff is for merging unrelated histories, that you can then rebase one history on the other, and present a new unified history.
Is the really only reason why people do this, so that you can rewrite your initial working commit in a rebase? I think that might be it. (You can't easily rewrite the initial commit with a rebase.)