From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 20:30:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v2 0/7] Introduce new commands switch-branch and checkout-files
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kYiMObOHAuf+01r0-YVWHBk-6NpceXh9Z25dx9JZsP62Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8Cv9ZwWEs-wsOtms3JCXo7x8fL_PBatcb0TgvrrQuMUdg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 12:09 PM Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 9:01 PM Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> > should we do
> > something about detached HEAD in this switch-branch command (or
> > whatever its name will be)?
> >
> > This is usually a confusing concept to new users
>
> And it just occurred to me that perhaps we should call this "unnamed
> branch" (at least at high UI level) instead of detached HEAD. It is
> technically not as accurate, but much better to understand.

or 'direct' branch? I mean 'detached HEAD' itself is also not correct
as the HEAD points to a valid commit/tag usually, so it is attached to
that content. The detachment comes from the implicit "from a branch".