From: Jakub Narebski Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:40:08 GMT Subject: Re: Difficulties in advertising a new branch to git newbies Message-ID: <200701302240.09212.jnareb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7vwt34xksz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Junio C Hamano wrote: > Yann Dirson 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