From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:55:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Difficulties in advertising a new branch to git newbies
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701302052230.3021@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701301853300.20138@iabervon.org>

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

>   warning: you are now browsing the history without a local branch. You 
>   will not be able to commit changes unless you create a new local branch 
>   with "git checkout -b <new_branch_name>".

This isn't true.  You can commit on top of a detached head.  In fact you 
can do almost anything.


Nicolas