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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Checking out orphans with -f
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:40:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vsjjcljmj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201201181207.05967.mfick@codeaurora.org> (Martin Fick's message of "Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:07:05 -0700")

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?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-18 22:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-18 19:07 Checking out orphans with -f Martin Fick
2012-01-18 22:40 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-01-18 22:45   ` Martin Fick
2012-01-18 22:50   ` Martin Fick
2012-01-18 23:12     ` Junio C Hamano

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