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From: Craig H Maynard <chmaynard@me.com>
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Subject: Orphan branch not well-defined?
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Team,

Recently I tried creating an orphan branch in an existing repo using =
git-checkout and git-switch.=20

Both commands have an --orphan option.

The results were different:

git checkout --orphan <newbranch> retained the entire working tree, =
including subdirectories and their contents.

git switch --orphan <newbranch> retained subdirectories but NOT their =
content.

Leaving aside the question of whether or not this is a bug, there =
doesn't appear to be any formal definition of the term "orphan branch" =
in the git documentation. Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Craig