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Re: Orphan branch not well-defined?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 24, 2023, 02:31 UTC
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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
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> On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 9:03 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> +[[def_orphan]]orphan::
>> +       The act of becoming on an <<def_unborn,unborn>> branch.
>
> s/on an/an/

I actually did mean it. It is not a verb whose subject is a branch. The user (or you can call a repository) gets on a branch that happens not to exist yet.

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  1. Craig H MaynardNov 22, 2023
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 22, 2023
  3. Chris TorekNov 22, 2023
  4. Junio C HamanoNov 24, 2023
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 24, 2023
  6. Eric SunshineNov 24, 2023
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 24, 2023

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