Hi, 2010/3/21 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: > I'm not native either, and "orphan" sounded strange in that we've never > used that word in any of our use case or workflow description in our > documents. I didn't know. I thought you were American. > The main point of the feature is not the emptyness of the resulting tree > (it is merely one possible outcome), but is the lack of parents in the > resulting commit. So I would recommend against --empty. --root might be > a good synonym, though, and we _do_ already use that word for that purpose > in some commands (e.g. "log --root"). --root could be a synonym but the reason I haven't chosen it was the fact that it could mislead people to think the functionality will do something with/based on the first commit of the actual branch, subjectively thinking "THE ROOT". IMHO --orphan (no parents) is more obvious. We should argue one of our native English speaker amidst this developer community to be sure. Anyway that is just a word to change or not in the patch... :-) Regards -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html