Re: [RFC] Detached-HEAD reminder on commit?
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Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
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- Sep 3, 2008, 07:45 UTC
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On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Jeff King wrote:
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> 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.
Ok. Scratch that.
But what happened to the various suggestions in that original thread on adding a safety valve when _leaving_ the detached state (i.e. preventing the user from leaving their detached commits unreachable)?
It seems to have been suggested (in various forms) by several people and generally well-received in the original thread, but nothing seems to have come of it (at least nothing that has survived till today).
Apparently masochistic,
...Johan
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