From: Erick Mattos Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:17:04 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git checkout -b: unparent the new branch with -o Message-ID: <55bacdd31003161117l5c43631n80e2e4a023a78199@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7vhboil4ni.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> 2010/3/14 Junio C Hamano : > Erick Mattos writes: > >> You got it right.  HTML and man branches are really very good examples. > > Not at all.  You fundamentally do not want to have checkout of these > branches in the same place as you checkout and work in the main branches. It is unimportant the folder you will have them within. It is a good example because they could be started or even kept (merged only when needed) as an unrelated branch.