From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:04:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Detached HEAD (experimental)
Message-ID: <20070110140432.GA20868@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701091539050.3594@woody.osdl.org>

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:46:32PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I would suggest a solution:
> 
>  - git checkout will refuse to switch AWAY from a detached head unless the 
>    SHA1 of the detached head exactly matches some other branch.

What about

  git checkout HEAD~20

I agree that checking out tags will be more common, but it feels like we
are discouraging this usage by presenting spurious warning messages.

-Peff