Martin Fick <mfick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am trying to write some scripts which do various things to > a git repo and I have run into a issue where I think that > git behavior with respect to orphan branches is potentially > undesirable. If I type: > > git checkout --orphan a > > I cannot easily abandon this state What do you mean by "abandon"? If you want to remove a branch "a" because you do not need it, you can check out some other branch and say "git branch -D a", no? -- 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