On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 18:11, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That leaves "Hidden History" the only useful use case. IOW, the answer to > the first question above is not "Separate or Hidden History", but is > "Hidden History and nothing else". > > And a half of the the answer to the second question is "checkout --orphan" > (and the other half would be "filter-branch"). Uh... no. If you think that "Hidden History" is all that matters, then you think that git commit --no-parent is all that matters. That's what my email was showing. > "checkout --orphan" does > have major safety advantage than introducing "commit --no-parent", as Peff > pointed out earlier (to which I agreed). Did I not provide in my previous email a decent safety mechanism? -- 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