From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:21:23 GMT
Subject: Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?
Message-ID: <7v1vh8417w.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001300011290.1681@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:

> Could you please take this really nice explanation and make it into a 
> patch adding a "Detached HEAD" section in the git-checkout.txt manual 
> page please?

Good suggestion.

I'd be happier if the description didn't say "SHA-1", but instead said
"object name".

Also it would be nicer (just a personal preference) if a picture that
forks only one branch forks it upwards, like this:

             o---o
            /    
    ---o---o---o

not downwards, like this:

    ---o---o---o
            \
             o---o