From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:08:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Detached-HEAD reminder on commit?
Message-ID: <20080903180846.GB16454@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <8A00EA31-ED43-45CF-A162-66DC45AE41F0@wincent.com>

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 04:11:32PM +0200, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:

>>  Previous HEAD position was 1234abcd
>>
>> when leaving the detached HEAD state, but it seems to have disappeared.
>
> Mightn't "Previous HEAD position was 1234abcd (detached)" be even more  
> helpful?

The full message is actually:

    Previous HEAD position was 1234abcd... subject line of 1234abcd

I am not opposed to changing it, but I will let others decide on what it
should say; my patch just reinstates the message itself (for which there
was code, but broken code).

-Peff