From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 08:46:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/19] checkout: split part of it to new command switch
Message-ID: <CACsJy8D-vL88JaJYqhXnkJ5Cxvou_=haSFLpwELuX-E9cj_9aQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190131130953.GJ13764@szeder.dev>

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 8:09 PM SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 04:48:20PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
> > diff --git a/Documentation/git-switch.txt b/Documentation/git-switch.txt
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000000..953c9747b2
>
> > +--orphan <new_branch>::
> > +     Create a new 'orphan' branch, named <new_branch>, started from
> > +     <start_point> and switch to it. See explanation of the same
> > +     option in linkgit:git-checkout[1] for details.
>
> Copy-paste error?  An orphan branch, by definition, doesn't have a
> starting point.

It does not have any parents, true. The "started from <start-point>"
is not super clear on this, but git-checkout.txt describes more and
says that it's essentially "git checkout <start_point>" then make an
orphan branch based on HEAD^{tree}.
-- 
Duy