Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > -This can be useful when you want to publish the tree from a commit > -without exposing its full history. You might want to do this to publish > -an open source branch of a project whose current tree is "clean", but > -whose full history contains proprietary or otherwise encumbered bits of > -code. This part used to be just this in v1: -This can be useful when you want to publish the tree from a commit -without exposing its full history. You might want to do this to publish +This can be useful when you want to publish a tree without exposing its +full history; for instance, you might want to do this to publish an open source branch of a project whose current tree is "clean", but whose full history contains proprietary or otherwise encumbered bits of code. is it intentionnal that you discarded completely the paragraph? If so, then I disagree, the paragraph was one of the main motivation for someone to use --orphan, without it, someone may understand _what_ it does, but not _why_ it is useful. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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