<rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am wondering whether --detached is a more semantically consistent option. While --orphan has meaning in checkout (not one I ever liked), detached makes more sense as a description of what is intended here - as in not connected. An orphan is not even detached, if I understand correctly. The state is what is called "being on an unborn branch", where your HEAD does not even point at any commit. HEAD only knows a name of a branch that is not yet created but will be when you make a commit. While "(HEAD) being detached" means that you are on an existing commit---it is just that future history you extend by making a commit from that state will not be on any branch. So if we wanted to fix the misnomer, s/orphan/unborn/ would be how I would go about it.
