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From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Docs: git checkout --orphan: `root commit' and `branch head'
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:50:00 +0000
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On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 13:45, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Well, I think Jeff already proferred a solution. We could have:
>>
>> =C2=A0 git commit --no-parent
> [...]
>
> Appart from the safety objections, is the "root commit" senario commo=
n
> enough to deserve appearing in the user-interface for both "commit" a=
nd
> "checkout"?
>
> I think "git commit -h" is scary enough as it is ...

Well, as Junio mentioned, "--orphan" could be deprecated in favor of
"--no-parent"; the uncommon nature of this task works to our
advantage, in that it makes a deprecation of "--orphan" easy.