Make a create-stable-branch script. Easy.

Makes me wonder why all git repos don't just start with this empty directory
commit instead of the having people do the "you can't clone empty repositories
so make a dummy crap" dance.

Oh, well, I suppose it does encode my timestamp/user info/etc. Which probably
shouldn't be in every new repo git ever created. Okay, fair enough.

diff --git a/scripts/make-stable-branch b/scripts/make-stable-branch
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..f5b4193
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/make-stable-branch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Make a root directory tree with no files in it
+config_tree_hash=$(git mktree <<FOO
+FOO)
+
+# Commit the root directory tree
+commit_hash=$(git commit-tree $config_tree_hash <<FOO
+Initial commit on stable branch.
+FOO)
+
+# Push the commit out to the gitconfig branch
+git update-ref refs/heads/stable "$commit_hash" 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
+