From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:12:56 GMT
Subject: Re: `git checkout --orpan` leaves a dirty worktree
Message-ID: <7vzjzezhrr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130208200402.GB8461@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>
>> Why should I have to `git rm -rf .` after a `git checkout --orphan`?
>> What sort of misfeature/ incomplete feature is this?
>
> One designed for the "going open source" use case, where you have
> existing code that you want to put into a new branch without history.
> When there is no existing code, it seems simpler to do
>
> 	cd ..
> 	git init code-that-has-nothing-to-do-previous-cwd
> 	cd code-that-*
> 	... hack hack hack ...
> 	git commit
> 	git remote add origin <url>
> 	git push -u origin master
>
> BTW, I suspect a clearer way to say what you meant is "Sounds like a
> misfeature" which is gentler and more focused than an implied "What
> kind of idiot designed this?"  Even if you are thinking the latter. :)

So true ;-).  

Especially when you may an answer that may make _you_ look like an
idiot ;-)