From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:23:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-checkout: disable guides how to switch branches with ui.guide
Message-ID: <20070201212306.GA14152@moooo.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <7vabzxoaed.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> The error message you quoted [..]
Ok, I thought you were refering to the first one.  Right, for the
second one it is ok, one will get used to do -b or -f.

But I also quoted (and patched) the other one for switching to
detached heads:
> Note: you are not on any branch and are at commit "v1.1.2"
> 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>
This one is a bit shorter but the last three lines are still a guide
what to do in case you don't know what's going an.