Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> The "simplest" way to do that is:
>
> rm .git/refs/heads/master
>
> but that is not guaranteed to work in future versions of git, and I
> wouldn't recommend it in general.
Yeah, "git checkout -b" has a stronger sibling "git checkout -B"
(i.e. I know that the named branch already exists, so this is not a
request to create a new one, but to repoint that existing one), but
there is no analogue for "git checkout --orphan". That could be
worked around with something like this though:
$ git checkout --orphan hu
$ git branch -D master
$ git checkout --orphan master
As I agree with your "amending is better", I do not think allowing
an easier access to such a feature is urgent or important, though.
> Probably a better workflow is to create the commit state you _do_ want
> (change files, "git add" them, etc), and then run "git commit --amend"
> to replace the bad commit.
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