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

From: Erick Mattos <erick.mattos@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 21, 2010, 21:15 UTC
Message-ID: <55bacdd31003211415k79b7a039n3f19eb95eefcad43@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd3yxqxdj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

2010/3/21 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:

> I'm not native either, and "orphan" sounded strange in that we've never
> used that word in any of our use case or workflow description in our
> documents.

I didn't know.  I thought you were American.

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> The main point of the feature is not the emptyness of the resulting tree
> (it is merely one possible outcome), but is the lack of parents in the
> resulting commit.  So I would recommend against --empty.  --root might be
> a good synonym, though, and we _do_ already use that word for that purpose
> in some commands (e.g. "log --root").

--root could be a synonym but the reason I haven't chosen it was the fact that it could mislead people to think the functionality will do something with/based on the first commit of the actual branch, subjectively thinking "THE ROOT".

IMHO --orphan (no parents) is more obvious.

We should argue one of our native English speaker amidst this developer community to be sure.

Anyway that is just a word to change or not in the patch... :-)

Regards