From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:40:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Checking out orphans with -f
Message-ID: <7vsjjcljmj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201201181207.05967.mfick@codeaurora.org>

Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org> writes:

> 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?