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Re: [PATCH] git-gui: give more advice when detaching HEAD

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 12, 2011, 07:42 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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>   2. When leaving the detached state, notice that we have commits not
>      contained in any other ref and pop up an "are you sure you want to
>      lose these commits" dialog, with an option to create a branch. This
>      is something we considered and rejected for the CLI, but I wonder
>      if it makes more sense for git-gui.

Hmm, I don't recall the discussion on this for the CLI, but it intuitively feels like a good thing to do, unless it incurs an unacceptable cost. Temporarily detaching HEAD by scripts like rebase and am that know what they are doing should never have to pay the penalty, but an expert user who worked interactively on the detached HEAD can be made to wait for 0.2 second more.

Your 1 and 3 both sound like sensible things to do, but I am not a good judge on them as I rarely if ever work in GUI.

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  1. git-gui: give more advice when detaching HEADJeff King, Feb 12, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 12, 2011
  3. Jeff KingFeb 12, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 12, 2011
  5. Jeff KingFeb 12, 2011
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