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Re: [PATCH v3] git checkout: create unparented branch by --orphan

From
PBPeter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>
Date
Mar 21, 2010, 17:14 UTC
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On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:34:38PM -0300, Erick Mattos wrote:
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> Similar to -b, --orphan creates a new branch, but it starts without any
> commit.  After running "git checkout --orphan newbranch", you are on a
> new branch "newbranch", and the first commit you create from this state
> will start a new history without any ancestry.
> 
> "git checkout --orphan" keeps the index and the working tree files
> intact in order to make it convenient for creating a new history whose
> trees resemble the ones from the original branch.
>

Sorry to skim in so late but --orphan sounds - at least to me as a non native speaker - a little strange. Yes, I know it means "without parents", but actually it would be the *last* thing I would search for after opening the manpage.

Wouldn't --empty-parent or --no-parent describe the situation better? It actually has the benefit that it would match on a search for /parent/, which I would have searched for if I want to create a new empty branch.

-- Peter

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  1. git checkout: create unparented branch by --orphanErick Mattos, Mar 21, 2010
  2. Peter BaumannMar 21, 2010
  3. Erick MattosMar 21, 2010
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 21, 2010
  5. Erick MattosMar 21, 2010
  6. Michael J GruberMar 22, 2010
  7. Chris JohnsenMar 22, 2010
  8. Erick MattosMar 22, 2010
  9. Junio C HamanoMar 21, 2010
  10. Chris JohnsenMar 22, 2010
  11. Erick MattosMar 22, 2010
  12. Translating error messages in Git (was: Re: [PATCH v3] git checkout: create unparented branch by --orphan)Jakub Narebski, Mar 22, 2010
  13. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2010

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