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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
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Subject: Re: Orphan branch not well-defined?
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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 9:03=E2=80=AFPM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.c=
om> wrote:
>> +[[def_orphan]]orphan::
>> +       The act of becoming on an <<def_unborn,unborn>> branch.
>
> s/on an/an/

I actually did mean it.  It is not a verb whose subject is a branch.
The user (or you can call a repository) gets on a branch that
happens not to exist yet.