Re: [PATCH v2] git checkout -b: unparent the new branch with -o

[Erick Mattos <erick.mattos@gmail.com>]

Hi,

You got it right.  HTML and man branches are really very good examples.

Regards

2010/3/13 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>>     Side note: The other two "disjoint" merges we have are also this kind
>>     of "no common paths" merge.  Nobody who was involved in the branches
>>     that resulted in them prepared his branch with --orphan, by the way.
>>     They started out in independent repositories, because they were by
>>     definition independent projects and these were "cross project merges",
>>     as Linus put it.
>
> Note that beside "disjoint" merges ("cross project merges"), of gitk,
> git-gui, gitweb and (very early in git history) git mail tools, there
> are also three "disjoint"/"unparented" branches: 'html', 'man' and
> 'todo'.
>
> While 'todo' is totally unrelated, and if instead of starting in
> separate repository it would be created using proposed feature, it
> would be created with "no common paths" case.
>
> BUT in the case of 'html' and 'man' branches I could see why current
> implementation of _removing index and not removing files_ might be
> advantageous.  Remove index, create HTML and manpage version of
> documentation, and add HTML (in 'html' branch) or manpages (in 'man'
> branch)... probably shifting root, so it is not all in single
> Documentation directory.
>
> Just my 2 eurocents.
>
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> Jakub Narebski
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