Re: [PATCH] tone down the detached head warning

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 1, 2007, 03:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20070201032925.GA2505@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vd54ur26u.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:23:21PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>         M	foo.c
>         Switched to branch "master"
> 	: gitster project/master; git checkout master^
> 	M	bar.c
>         M	foo.c
> 	Detached your HEAD -- you are not on any branch.
>         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>
> 	: gitster project; 
>
> would feel very natural and much less scary.

Much improved, IMHO. As an added bonus, I think it creates some feedback that lets a user know when they have mistakenly used 'git checkout' to switch heads when they meant to restore a file.

I still wish there was some other language for detaching to a commit specified by a remote tracking branch; it just seems wrong to say "you are not on any branch" right after the user requests to checkout a branch (admittedly not one of their local branches, but for a user merely poking through the repository, the difference is probably not important).

-Peff