From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:44:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Detached-HEAD reminder on commit?
Message-ID: <20080902214428.GA20355@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <200809022339.20123.johan@herland.net>

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 11:39:20PM +0200, Johan Herland wrote:

> I'm not sure I like this personally, but if we _really_ don't want newbies 
> to shoot themselves in the foot, we could make "git commit" fail on a 
> detached HEAD unless the user has indicated that s/he knows what's going 
> on; i.e. something like this:

This was discussed to death when detached HEAD was introduced, and the
decision was to go with the current behavior. Try looking in the list
archives around December 2006 / January 2007 if you are truly
masochistic.

-Peff