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Re: `git checkout --orpan` leaves a dirty worktree

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Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 8, 2013, 20:31 UTC
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I'm curious what your use case is.

The behavior has been inconvenient for me too, but I have only used it in test cases; I have no real use case where I wanted to create an unborn/orphan branch.

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> Why should I have to `git rm -rf .` after a `git checkout --orphan`?
> What sort of misfeature/ incomplete feature is this?
>
> Ram
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  1. Ramkumar RamachandraFeb 8, 2013
  2. Jonathan NiederFeb 8, 2013
  3. Ramkumar RamachandraFeb 8, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2013
  5. Jens LehmannFeb 10, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2013
  7. Martin von ZweigbergkFeb 8, 2013
  8. Ramkumar RamachandraFeb 8, 2013

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