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Re: [PATCH v2] Docs: git checkout --orphan: `root commit' and `branch head'

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Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
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Sep 27, 2011, 16:13 UTC
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On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 16:01, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

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> Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> -This can be useful when you want to publish the tree from a commit
>> -without exposing its full history. You might want to do this to publish
>> -an open source branch of a project whose current tree is "clean", but
>> -whose full history contains proprietary or otherwise encumbered bits of
>> -code.
>
> This part used to be just this in v1:
>
> -This can be useful when you want to publish the tree from a commit
> -without exposing its full history. You might want to do this to publish
> +This can be useful when you want to publish a tree without exposing its
> +full history; for instance, you might want to do this to publish
>  an open source branch of a project whose current tree is "clean", but
>  whose full history contains proprietary or otherwise encumbered bits of
>  code.
>
> is it intentionnal that you discarded completely the paragraph? If so,
> then I disagree, the paragraph was one of the main motivation for
> someone to use --orphan, without it, someone may understand _what_ it
> does, but not _why_ it is useful.

It was intentional; I was finding it difficult to express that paragraph succintly in a way that is consistent with correct terminology. Then I realized it's fairly redundant, anyway.

I think that the last paragraph provides enough context to understand its usefulness. Also, anybody who ever independently decided to carve out proprietary bits in that way would immediately recognize the need for creating a commit without parents, a notion which would lead him or her pretty quickly to this documentation or jog his or her memory about it based on the text of v2.

If everyone else is quite set on keeping that paragraph, though, I'll take the challenge; however, I think that would be a waste of time.

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  2. Andreas EricssonSep 25, 2011
  3. Carlos Martín NietoSep 25, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 26, 2011
  5. Carlos Martín NietoSep 26, 2011
  6. Docs: git checkout --orphan: `root commit' and `branch head'Michael Witten, Sep 27, 2011
  7. Matthieu MoySep 27, 2011
  8. Docs: git checkout --orphan: `root commit' and `branch head'Michael Witten, Sep 27, 2011
  9. Matthieu MoySep 27, 2011
  10. Michael WittenSep 27, 2011
  11. Matthieu MoySep 27, 2011
  12. Michael WittenSep 27, 2011
  13. Philip OakleySep 27, 2011
  14. Docs: git checkout --orphan: `root commit' and `branch head'Michael Witten, Sep 28, 2011
  15. Junio C HamanoSep 28, 2011
  16. Michael WittenSep 29, 2011
  17. Docs: git checkout --orphan: Copyedit, and s/root commit/orphan branch/Michael Witten, Sep 29, 2011
  18. Michael WittenSep 29, 2011
  19. Philip OakleySep 29, 2011
  20. Junio C HamanoSep 29, 2011
  21. Michael WittenSep 29, 2011
  22. Documentation/git-checkout.txt: Explain --orphan without introducing an undefined "orphan branch"Junio C Hamano, Sep 29, 2011
  23. Michael WittenSep 29, 2011
  24. Phil HordSep 29, 2011
  25. Michael WittenSep 29, 2011
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  38. Junio C HamanoSep 28, 2011
  39. Michael WittenSep 28, 2011
  40. Matthieu MoySep 28, 2011
  41. Michael WittenSep 28, 2011
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