Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 14, 2009, 20:42 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7huxbtbk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0910141616530.20122@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:

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> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Jay Soffian wrote:
>> 
>> > $ git commit -m "blah"
>> > Cannot commit while not on any branch. Please use git commit -b <branch> to
>> > specify the name of a new branch to commit to, or use git commit -f to
>> > force a detached commit.
>> 
>> The difference is that some experienced users depend on being able to 
>> commit while not on a branch, and want to not get a warning for every 
>> commit while not on a branch.
>
> I assume that the -f would silence any warning?

It won't help to alleviate my irritation if I need to give -f to each and every invocation of "git commit" while detached, though.