Re: [PATCH v2] Docs: git checkout --orphan: `root commit' and `branch head'

> Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> -This can be useful when you want to publish the tree from a commit
>> -without exposing its full history. You might want to do this to publish
>> -an open source branch of a project whose current tree is "clean", but
>> -whose full history contains proprietary or otherwise encumbered bits of
>> -code.
>
> This part used to be just this in v1:
>
> -This can be useful when you want to publish the tree from a commit
> -without exposing its full history. You might want to do this to publish
> +This can be useful when you want to publish a tree without exposing its
> +full history; for instance, you might want to do this to publish
> an open source branch of a project whose current tree is "clean", but
> whose full history contains proprietary or otherwise encumbered bits of
> code.
>
> is it intentionnal that you discarded completely the paragraph? If so,
> then I disagree, the paragraph was one of the main motivation for
> someone to use --orphan, without it, someone may understand _what_ it
> does, but not _why_ it is useful.
>
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