Re: Checking out orphans with -f

[Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>]

On Wednesday, January 18, 2012 03:40:36 pm Junio C Hamano 
wrote:
> Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org> writes:
> > I am trying to write some scripts which do various
> > things to a git repo and I have run into a issue where
> > I think that git behavior with respect to orphan
> > branches is potentially
> > 
> > undesirable.  If I type:
> >   git checkout --orphan a
> > 
> > I cannot easily abandon this state
> 
> What do you mean by "abandon"?
> 
> If you want to remove a branch "a" because you do not
> need it, you can check out some other branch and say
> "git branch -D a", no?

By abandon, I simply mean to check out another branch, which 
as you point, I can almost do.  I just can't do it by 
checking out another orphaned branch!  Why not, this seems 
inconsistent?  In both cases I loose what the original 
orphaned branch (a) is, so why prevent me from doing it in 
the one case and not the other?

-Martin

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