Re: Difficulties in advertising a new branch to git newbies

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Jan 31, 2007, 05:09 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701302331440.20138@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701302052230.3021@xanadu.home>

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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> 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.

"Commits you make will not be attached to permanent state unless you create a local branch"? I'm not sure how the feature turned out to work, but I know that (a) you're fine if you don't make any commits and (b) the behavior is more like what happens with anonymous checkouts of other people's repositories in non-distributed SCMs, so people will tend to underestimate what they can do with this, rather than overestimating it and getting into trouble.

I suppose it's reasonable to warn at commit time, if we ended up going with allowing commits like normal.

	-Daniel
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