From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:37:12 GMT
Subject: Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?
Message-ID: <7vwrywplxz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <ron1-6F8B85.14520801022010@news.gmane.org>

Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com> writes:

>> For my rather fresh eye it looks more like unnamed (anonymous?) branch
>> than a temporary one. Doesn't detached HEAD behave exactly like a
>> regular HEAD but pointing to the tip of an unnamed branch?
>
> I strongly concur with this.
>
> And as long as I'm weighing in, it would also help to prevent confusion 
> if it were made clear that this unnamed branch doesn't actually come 
> into existence unless and until you do a commit.

This shows that you are still thinking a branch is a line (or multiple
lines).  It is not.