From: Raimund Bauer <ray007@gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:46:22 GMT
Subject: RE: [PATCH] detached HEAD -- finishing touches
Message-ID: <001a01c745e5$d59fde80$0b0aa8c0@abf.local>
In-Reply-To: <7vlkjip7mu.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

>     [git.git (master)]$ git checkout master^
>     M       git-checkout.sh
>     Note: you are not on any branch and are at commit "master^"
>     If you want to create a new branch from this checkout, 
> you may do so
>     (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command 
> again. Example:
>       git checkout -b <new_branch_name>
> 
> * Coming back to an attached state can lose the detached HEAD, so
>   I get warned and stopped.
> 
>     [git.git]$ git checkout master
>     You are not on any branch and switching to branch 'master'
>     may lose your changes.  At this point, you can do one of 
> two things:
>      (1) Decide it is Ok and say 'git checkout -f master';
>      (2) Start a new branch from the current commit, by saying
>          'git checkout -b <branch-name>'.
>     Leaving your HEAD detached; not switching to branch 'master'.

Here you have a detached HEAD, but you haven't build any commits
on top of it. Why shouldn't you be allowed to move away?

-- 
best regards

  Ray