On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 13:45, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx> 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 ... Well, as Junio mentioned, "--orphan" could be deprecated in favor of "--no-parent"; the uncommon nature of this task works to our advantage, in that it makes a deprecation of "--orphan" easy. -- 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