Subject: Re: `git checkout --orpan` leaves a dirty worktree

From: Jens Lehmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:10:45 +0100

Am 08.02.2013 21:17, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> BTW, Is there a better way to clean out the worktree than `git rm -rf
>> .`, since that fails for submodules?  The impulsive `reset --hard`
>> obviously fails because there is no HEAD.
> 
> I _think_ the "git rm" is one of the things on Jens's roadmap.

Hmm, "git rm" does remove submodules since 1.8.1 (but they have to be
cloned with Git 1.7.8 or newer). Or is there something special about
the orphan checkout I'm missing here?