From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:17:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Docs: git checkout --orphan: `root commit' and `branch head'
Message-ID: <7vwrcszg3q.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpq4nzwoj1o.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

> Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Well, as Junio mentioned, "--orphan" could be deprecated in favor of
>> "--no-parent"; the uncommon nature of this task works to our
>> advantage, in that it makes a deprecation of "--orphan" easy.
>
> I agree that _some_ cases would be more natural with commit --no-parent,
> but I disagree that it is a better solution in general.

Just for the record, in my later message after reading Peff's response, I
said I agree that adding it to "commit" would be a mistake.