From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erick Mattos Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] git checkout: create unparented branch by --orphan Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:15:12 -0300 Message-ID: <55bacdd31003211415k79b7a039n3f19eb95eefcad43@mail.gmail.com> References: <1269185678-3039-1-git-send-email-erick.mattos@gmail.com> <20100321171431.GE2557@m62s10.vlinux.de> <7vd3yxqxdj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Peter Baumann , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Mar 21 22:15:49 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtSUr-0002mW-VD for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:15:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753393Ab0CUVPe convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:15:34 -0400 Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:34335 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752739Ab0CUVPd convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:15:33 -0400 Received: by gwaa18 with SMTP id a18so666164gwa.19 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:15:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=K4RuYX43pUdjNooDcxao1l4my+3xhGE+i0io8cwg6mM=; b=qO+24qsM9l85GXtOt0EjEkfuYXfgNP4N8X2dNdaMQ3b9SUB+IkVWdi9vwNr5Q0oKWu QcR/WtMzoBz5kn8QiVCo+u1ykZ85mX5xZ8lqWIVX/MI+colXfv48zjuP2T7YTuCxD/+x iAGqD6+MbRkAwp583YcbREcRzzzc5F0ZHQ0ko= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=swXnZfgTixLKyQpGyXJR+ju6/Lo4d1XwGJ42iCU+xQIquprD241J7Ur9Va8iqDKLfW bPaa2eiZ8srQ3M4UZHOIxMEpXWcmAGhOzbZIEDfQ8ZoEDQxGD8epq/SExwzsD5VauR5H LAFGXW5MEWlynKKrK1DA1g6C57pfRL+5Jhsbg= Received: by 10.150.250.42 with SMTP id x42mr10590849ybh.193.1269206132081; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:15:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7vd3yxqxdj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, 2010/3/21 Junio C Hamano : > I'm not native either, and "orphan" sounded strange in that we've nev= er > used that word in any of our use case or workflow description in our > documents. I didn't know. I thought you were American. > The main point of the feature is not the emptyness of the resulting t= ree > (it is merely one possible outcome), but is the lack of parents in th= e > resulting commit. =C2=A0So I would recommend against --empty. =C2=A0-= -root might be > a good synonym, though, and we _do_ already use that word for that pu= rpose > in some commands (e.g. "log --root"). --root could be a synonym but the reason I haven't chosen it was the fact that it could mislead people to think the functionality will do something with/based on the first commit of the actual branch, subjectively thinking "THE ROOT". IMHO --orphan (no parents) is more obvious. We should argue one of our native English speaker amidst this developer community to be sure. Anyway that is just a word to change or not in the patch... :-) Regards