Hi Eric, On Mon, 25 Nov 2019, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 10:54 AM Johannes Schindelin > <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Nov 2019, Phillip Wood wrote: > > > On 25/11/2019 03:00, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > That "git rm -rf ." scares me, though. > > > > > > I know I'm not too keen on it my self but we need to empty the worktree and > > > index if we're going to switch to an unborn branch > > > > How about `git worktree --orphan does-not-exist unborn`? > > git-worktree doesn't presently recognize --orphan, though it would be > nice if it did. In fact, I clearly was thinking of --orphan (along > with -b, -B, and --detach), when I wrote the implementation, as can be > seen from the commentary in one of the original patches[1]. That > --orphan never got added was either due to an oversight or it was one > of those "we'll add it when someone actually needs it" deals. > > [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/1436573146-3893-11-git-send-email-sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ You're absolutely correct, of course. I actually had looked at the output of `git checkout -h` instead of `git worktree -h`... And `checkout` does have that `--orphan` option. But from the documentation at https://git-scm.com/docs/git-checkout#Documentation/git-checkout.txt---orphanltnewbranchgt I see that the command I had in mind does not work as I expected it to: `git checkout --orphan new-branch $EMPTY_TREE` will fail with fatal: Cannot switch branch to a non-commit '4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904' (and the documentation of the `--orphan` option also suggests to use `git rm -rf` for the use case under discussion, so there...) Sorry for the noise, Dscho
