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Always Start with an Empty Commit

• qznc 10y ago
  > I’ve never actually seen an orphan branch in the wild. I use them for Github's `gh-pages` branches. However, the [official documentation](https://help.github.com/articles/creating-project-pages-using-the-command-line/ https://help.github.com/articles/creating-project-pages-usin...) suggests to branch of master and delete everything. I also work in [a repo with three roots](https://github.com/libfirm/libfirm https://github.com/libfirm/libfirm). It was different repos, which got merged later.
  • gsylvie 10y ago
    Interesting gh-pages approach! Yes, that make sense. An orphan branch is a nice way to bring in the disparate history of a separate repo that you've decided to merge into your main repo.