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[34.83.5.33]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id n20-20020a170902d0d400b00192e1590349sm16530224pln.216.2023.01.14.19.49.07 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sat, 14 Jan 2023 19:49:07 -0800 (PST) Sender: Junio C Hamano From: Junio C Hamano To: Cc: "'Jacob Abel'" , , , =?utf-8?Q?'=C3=86var_Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0_Bjarmaso?= =?utf-8?Q?n'?= , "'Eric Sunshine'" , "'Phillip Wood'" , =?utf-8?Q?'Rub=C3=A9n_Justo'?= , "'Taylor Blau'" Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 3/4] worktree add: add --orphan flag References: <20221104010242.11555-1-jacobabel@nullpo.dev> <20221104213401.17393-1-jacobabel@nullpo.dev> <20221110233137.10414-1-jacobabel@nullpo.dev> <20221212014003.20290-1-jacobabel@nullpo.dev> <20221220023637.29042-1-jacobabel@nullpo.dev> <20221228061539.13740-1-jacobabel@nullpo.dev> <20230107045757.30037-1-jacobabel@nullpo.dev> <20230109173227.29264-1-jacobabel@nullpo.dev> <20230109173227.29264-4-jacobabel@nullpo.dev> <20230114224715.ewec6sz5h3q3iijs@phi> <013701d92893$3fad5d10$bf081730$@nexbridge.com> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 19:49:07 -0800 In-Reply-To: <013701d92893$3fad5d10$bf081730$@nexbridge.com> (rsbecker@nexbridge.com's message of "Sat, 14 Jan 2023 22:41:21 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org 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.