From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail•com>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox•com>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff•net>,
"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee•org>,
"Eric Raible" <raible@nextest•com>,
"Michael J Gruber" <git@drmicha•warpmail.net>,
"Carlos Martín Nieto" <cmn@elego•de>,
vra5107 <venkatram.akkineni@gmail•com>,
git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Docs: git checkout --orphan: `root commit' and `branch head'
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:45:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqty7wok5a.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMOZ1BvL85xsQpZdez4VJ+dH4NoQ9RkthHY9OsmdnnaZ_tFnFg@mail.gmail.com> (Michael Witten's message of "Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:40:58 +0000")
Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail•com> writes:
> Well, I think Jeff already proferred a solution. We could have:
>
> git commit --no-parent
[...]
Appart from the safety objections, is the "root commit" senario common
enough to deserve appearing in the user-interface for both "commit" and
"checkout"?
I think "git commit -h" is scary enough as it is ...
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-28 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-25 14:15 Can a git changeset be created with no parent vra5107
2011-09-25 14:33 ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-09-25 14:33 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2011-09-26 19:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-26 21:41 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2011-09-27 14:43 ` [PATCH] Docs: git checkout --orphan: `root commit' and `branch head' Michael Witten
2011-09-27 15:02 ` Matthieu Moy
2011-09-27 15:46 ` [PATCH v2] " Michael Witten
2011-09-27 16:01 ` Matthieu Moy
2011-09-27 16:13 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-27 16:53 ` Matthieu Moy
2011-09-27 17:09 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-27 20:59 ` Philip Oakley
2011-09-28 16:23 ` [PATCH v3] " Michael Witten
2011-09-28 20:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-29 15:52 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-29 15:44 ` [PATCH v4] Docs: git checkout --orphan: Copyedit, and s/root commit/orphan branch/ Michael Witten
2011-09-29 16:44 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-29 20:05 ` Philip Oakley
2011-09-29 18:11 ` In favor of "git commit --no-parent" Junio C Hamano
2011-09-29 18:52 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-29 18:59 ` [PATCH] Documentation/git-checkout.txt: Explain --orphan without introducing an undefined "orphan branch" Junio C Hamano
2011-09-29 19:02 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-29 21:02 ` In favor of "git commit --no-parent" Phil Hord
2011-09-29 21:28 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-29 21:50 ` Phil Hord
2011-09-29 22:01 ` Michael Witten
[not found] ` <CABURp0q8YhTS-GDYOANEa19P-V2wf_EUTo=RHqnhDB619w=y-w@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <7vd3ejrqin.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
2011-09-29 21:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-29 22:07 ` Phil Hord
2011-09-29 22:29 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-29 22:32 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-29 23:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-30 0:51 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-30 2:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-29 22:07 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-27 15:49 ` [PATCH] Docs: git checkout --orphan: `root commit' and `branch head' Michael J Gruber
2011-09-27 16:02 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-27 17:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-27 17:50 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-27 20:34 ` Eric Raible
2011-09-27 21:31 ` Philip Oakley
2011-09-27 21:42 ` Jeff King
2011-09-27 23:28 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-27 23:35 ` Jeff King
2011-09-27 23:44 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-28 0:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-28 13:40 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-28 13:45 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2011-09-28 13:50 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-28 14:09 ` Matthieu Moy
2011-09-28 14:35 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-28 14:45 ` Matthieu Moy
2011-09-28 15:06 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-28 18:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-28 4:04 ` Jay Soffian
2011-09-28 4:37 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-28 8:00 ` Michael J Gruber
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