I'm curious what your use case is. The behavior has been inconvenient for me too, but I have only used it in test cases; I have no real use case where I wanted to create an unborn/orphan branch. On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Why should I have to `git rm -rf .` after a `git checkout --orphan`? > What sort of misfeature/ incomplete feature is this? > > Ram > -- > 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 -- 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