From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:36:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] git checkout refs/heads/foo checks out branch foo
Message-ID: <AANLkTinmqTi4cYbR6PtSxt6itCvFQDuT_sE1tjx45a3h@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110207205934.GD13461@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Heya,

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 21:59, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> As cool and clever as the foo^0 behavior is once you understand it, I
> think it is a horribly confusing thing for non-experts. As part of this
> proposal, should we perhaps offer "git checkout --detach" as the
> easy-on-the-eyes way of intentionally detaching?

Now _that_ is an excellent usability improvement, assuming we want to
encourage detaching HEAD... do we?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier