Bug#684169: git checkout --orphan automatically adds all files in current branch

2012-08-07 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07.08.2012 18:39, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Last time when I needed "git checkout --orphan", it created >> branch >>> without any files. > I'm pretty sure it always had the current semantics. Perhaps the > index did not contain any files before

Bug#684169: git checkout --orphan automatically adds all files in current branch

2012-08-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Mika, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > Last time when I needed "git checkout --orphan", it created branch > without any files. I'm pretty sure it always had the current semantics. Perhaps the index did not contain any files before you ran "git checkout --orphan" last time? [...] > I don't think th

Bug#684169: git checkout --orphan automatically adds all files in current branch

2012-08-07 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07.08.2012 18:19, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > git-checkout(1) explains: > > If you want to start a disconnected history that records a set of > paths that is totally different from the one of , then > you should clear the index and the working tree

Bug#684169: git checkout --orphan automatically adds all files in current branch

2012-08-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 684169 + upstream # documentation severity 684169 minor reassign 684169 git-doc 1:1.7.10.4-1 quit Hi Mika, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > git checkout --orphan somebranch > touch something > git add something > > And all files from branch before somebranch are git added. git-checkout(1) explain