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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2023-11-24 12:09:18 +0900
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2023-11-24 12:11:23 +0900
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orphan/unborn: add to the glossary and use them consistently
To orphan is a verb that denotes the act of getting on an unborn branch, and a few references to "orphan branch" in our documentation are misuses of the word. They caused end-user confusion, which was made even worse because we did not have the term defined in the glossary document. Add entries for "unborn" branch and "orphan" operation to the glossary, and adjust existing documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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below for details.
--orphan <new-branch>::
- Create a new 'orphan' branch, named `<new-branch>`, started from
+ Create a new unborn branch, named `<new-branch>`, started from
`<start-point>` and switch to it. The first commit made on this
new branch will have no parents and it will be the root of a new
history totally disconnected from all the other branches and