Re: [PATCH] git-checkout: disable guides how to switch branches with ui.guide
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Carl Worth wrote:
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> I think the problem with this is that git tells the user so little
> information, ("may lose your changes"). What changes? Is that dirty
> state? Some commits? Hmm... have I committed anything? Why can't git
> be sure about what this operation is going to do?
>
> I think a really useful message would be something like:
>
> You are not on any branch so switching to branch 'foo'
> will cause the following commits to be lost:
>
> ba531642 A commit headline here...
> b1189118 Another commit headline here...
>
> Refusing to checkout 'foo'.Please just display the last commit since this list could get long.
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> If there are no commits that would become dangling, then the checkout
> should just proceed. As for the concern about losing a pointer to some
> "valuable" state that will still technically be reachable, but might
> be hard to get back, why not just print a message along the lines of:
>
> Leaving commit 7b1509f4 to checkout 'foo'.
>
> (or just depend on the HEAD reflog).
It is not fully available yet.
Nicolas
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>