New orphan worktree?
- From
- Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
- Date
- Jan 6, 2021, 16:17 UTC
- Message-ID
- <jwvwnwqrqwd.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.version-control.git@gnu.org>
I use worktrees extensively (and rarely use `git checkout`).
When I need to create a new orphan branch with a new matching worktree (or submodule), I find it is quite cumbersome. I basically have to do something like:
git worktree add -b dummy foo
cd foo
git checkout --orphan newbranch
git rm -rf .
git branch -D dummyI wish I could just do something like:
git worktree add --orphan foo newbranch
instead,
Stefan