From: Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:07:05 GMT
Subject: Checking out orphans with -f
Message-ID: <201201181207.05967.mfick@codeaurora.org>

I am trying to write some scripts which do various things to 
a git repo and I have run into a issue where I think that 
git behavior with respect to orphan branches is potentially 
undesirable.  If I type:

  git checkout --orphan a

I cannot easily abandon this state by simply typing:

  git check -f --orphan b

Is there a better simpler way to abandon a that I am not 
aware of?  Am I miss understanding what -f is supposed to 
do?  It seems like it should allow me to abandon the a 
orphan and continue to checkout the b orphan?

Thanks for any insights,

-Martin

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Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. which is a 
member of Code Aurora Forum