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Re: Checking out orphans with -f

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 18, 2012, 22:40 UTC
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Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org> writes:
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> 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
What do you mean by "abandon"?

If you want to remove a branch "a" because you do not need it, you can check out some other branch and say "git branch -D a", no?

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