From: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:12:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Detached HEAD (experimental)
Message-ID: <588099.85369.qm@web31805.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <87d55pyp82.wl%cworth@cworth.org>

--- Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
> 
> So let's put the safety valve where it's cheap to detect and where we
> know it will distinguish between read-only and read-write use, (that
> is, put it precisely at the point where there's an attempt to create a
> new commit object while in the detached state).

Yes, I agree.

>From my point of view, the question is where does it "go" committing
changes on top of a "detached HEAD".  Commits shold probably be only
allowed on top of local branches, since creating the branch itself
shows an intention, possibly intention to do work, to commit
new things.

    Luben