Add orphan option in checkout

[itoed]

I would like to perform a git checkout --orphan <new_branch> from a Gradle build script. Would this be feasible to implement?

Thanks for grgit!

[ajoberstar]

I looked into this just recently. I don't think JGit provides a true orphan checkout. Though I saw some other ways on StackOverflow that could get the same functionality using clean. I'll add it to the wishlist.

If you come up with a way to do this before I get to it, feel free to contribute a pull request.

[itoed]

Please let me know if this issue needs more work and I'll do what I can. Thank you!

[ajoberstar]

Turns out I had a link to an old version of their API. Thanks for taking care of this!