On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 8:09 PM SZEDER Gábor <szeder....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 04:48:20PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
> > diff --git a/Documentation/git-switch.txt b/Documentation/git-switch.txt
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000000..953c9747b2
>
> > +--orphan <new_branch>::
> > + Create a new 'orphan' branch, named <new_branch>, started from
> > + <start_point> and switch to it. See explanation of the same
> > + option in linkgit:git-checkout[1] for details.
>
> Copy-paste error? An orphan branch, by definition, doesn't have a
> starting point.
It does not have any parents, true. The "started from <start-point>"
is not super clear on this, but git-checkout.txt describes more and
says that it's essentially "git checkout <start_point>" then make an
orphan branch based on HEAD^{tree}.
--
Duy
