Re: Difficulties in advertising a new branch to git newbies

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 30, 2007, 21:40 UTC
Message-ID: <200701302240.09212.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vwt34xksz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> writes:
> 
>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:02:40PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>>> I propose this warning be removed here. Otherwise, I either add text
>>>> to my instructions telling the user to ignore the warning message they
>>>> get, or else I go back to "-b build" and back to all the old problems
>>>> it causes.
>>> 
>>> I rather leave warning, but (perhaps around 1.5.1) remove the
>>> instructions. RTFM (err... I'm not sure we have one about detached HEAD).
>>
>> Or provide a "-q" flag to silence the warning ?
> 
> Or maybe make "-f" to mean "I know what I am doing, do not
> warn".

Unfortunately "-f" in git-checkout mean "force a re-read of everything." Besides I'd like to have "-q" option for example for git-cat-file for gitweb...

> P.S. Jakub, *please* do not break the thread.

I'll try.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland