From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 17:24:46 GMT
Subject: Re: ephemeral-branches instead of detached-head?
Message-ID: <7vk3jqzush.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8A-aSjNdSkiBUBSH43G_FBMnShfpkcwQqM9-6d41rfCUA@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 7:14 PM, David Jeske <davidj@gmail.com> wrote:
>> IMO, the current warning during checkout of a detached-head is
>> misplaced. It should be removed, and instead there should only be a
>> warning after detached-head commit, since this is the only time there
>> is a danger of losing something.
>
> That would annoy me as I often work on top of detached HEAD on purpose
> and only create a branch when I want to save something. If the warning
> is to be moved, it should warn at the next checkout.

Don't we already do that?

    Warning: you are leaving N commits behind, not connected to
    any of your branches:

        ... list of commits to be lost ...


    If you want to keep them by creating a new branch, this may be a
    good time
    to do so with:

     git branch new_branch_name xxxxxx

    Switched to branch 'master'