Re: New orphan worktree?

On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 9:05 AM Jim Hill [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 8:18 AM Stefan Monnier [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

create a new orphan branch with a new matching worktree

There's a much shorter sequence

    git worktree add -b new new $(git commit-tree `git mktree <&-` <&-)
    rm .git/refs/heads/new

The rm command presumes the file-backend for refs.  That might not
work in the future with reftable.