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 that a new repository would be good for this, because my
> independ branches are mostly branches, which contain scripts, which
> should be easily accessible in the same repository and are highly
> related to the repository, which contains them.
Sorry for the lack of clarity. Here is what I mean:
cd my-repository
remote_url=$(git config remote.origin.url)
mkdir Meta
cd Meta
git init
git remote add origin remote.origin.url
git checkout -b scripts
vi nice-script
chmod +x nice-script
git add nice-script
git commit
git push origin scripts
cd ..
Meta/nice-script
The result is that the remote repository contains both your code
("master") and scripts ("scripts") and locally you have both available
and do not have to keep switching between them.
The upstream git maintainer does this to maintain a "todo" branch with
scripts and information about the state of different topic branches,
for example.
Hoping that clarifies,
Jonathan
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