Chris Webb <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Even though I wouldn't bother doing this myself, I wouldn't mind
> > reviewing a patch series ;-)
>
> Okay, I'll take a look when I finish my current project!
I had a bit of spare time this morning and had a quick look through
git-rebase--interactive.sh.
Apart from the validation, message and reflog code in git-rebase.sh and
git-rebase--interactive.sh that would need fixing up to know about this
case, the essence of this seems to be starting with an orphan commit instead
of a commit descended from $onto right at the end of --interactive.
I'd love to write something like
git checkout ${onto:---orphan}
(or a variant) but can git be persuaded to have an orphan detached HEAD like
that?
An orphan branch appears to involve HEAD containing 'ref: refs/heads/foo'
where refs/heads/foo doesn't exist yet, but I get 'not a git repo' instead
of an orphan detached HEAD with either :>.git/HEAD or rm .git/HEAD.
Cheers,
Chris.
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