From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:00:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] docs/checkout: clarify what "non-branch" means
Message-ID: <20090415180059.GG23332@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <gs1sgq$99e$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 01:36:58PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> > In this vein, I suggest that
> >       $ git checkout --detach master
> > as a way to get a detached HEAD on branch master is more understandable than
> >       $ git checkout refs/heads/master
> 
> To detach, use
>         $ git checkout master^0

I have often though a "--detach" would be useful, just because the ref^0
syntax is so mysterious (and yes, _I_ know what it does, but explaining
why it works to a novice git user is just painful).

-Peff