Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I think that the last paragraph provides enough context to understand > its usefulness. The last paragraph tells the user how to commit something different from what is already here, which is pretty much the opposite. IOW, I see two uses for --orphan: 1) Publish the same tree without its history 2) Start a different project, but for some reason you wanted it to leave in the same repository and you didn't want a "git init". The next paragraph documents 2), but your removed paragraph was documenting 1). Reading the new version, it feels like the user is encourraged to modify the index, while it's just an option. -- 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