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Re: [PATCH v2] git-pull.sh: better warning message for "git pull" on detached head.

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 8, 2009, 00:43 UTC
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:
> Grepping the source, "not on a branch" seems more widely used than
> "detached head" in the UI (including in another place of git-pull.sh),
> so, yes, something like this would be better:
Yeah, "not on a branch" sounds like the best wording.
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Message 6 of 7 in “git-pull.sh: better warning message for "git pull" on detached head.”
  1. git-pull.sh: better warning message for "git pull" on detached head.Matthieu Moy, Apr 6, 2009
  2. Mike RalphsonApr 7, 2009
  3. git-pull.sh: better warning message for "git pull" on detached head.Matthieu Moy, Apr 7, 2009
  4. Finn Arne GangstadApr 7, 2009
  5. Matthieu MoyApr 7, 2009
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2009
  7. git-pull.sh: better warning message for "git pull" on detached head.Matthieu Moy, Apr 8, 2009

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