From: Johan Herland Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:45:08 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Detached-HEAD reminder on commit? Message-ID: <200809030945.08619.johan@herland.net> In-Reply-To: <20080902214428.GA20355@sigill.intra.peff.net> On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Jeff King wrote: > 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 -- Johan Herland, www.herland.net