Erick Mattos venit, vidit, dixit 21.03.2010 22:15: > 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. [Disclosure: non-native speaker but having lived with natives ;)] I'd favour "root" for several reasons: - "root" is the correct technical term in graph theory - "root" is used the same way in other (Git) places - "orphan" is someone who used to have parents, so with "orphan" I would rather associate the process of removing parents from the picture (removing parentship information from an existing commit) Just my two Euro-cents :) Michael -- 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