Re: Detached HEAD warning (again)
- From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
- Date
- Mar 31, 2009, 10:04 UTC
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- <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903311203490.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
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- <9099EAF5-6B43-4F15-A905-9E21B45B7AE9@ai.rug.nl>
Hi,
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Pieter de Bie wrote:
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> I strongly remember there being a discussion about this a few weeks ago, > but I can't find it. Basically, someone wanted to introduce a warning > every time someone commits on a detached HEAD. This was shot down > because there already is a big warning when you detach your HEAD (with > which I agree). > > However, someone here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=538619 > pointed to an example here: http://book.git-scm.com/5_submodules.html , > which works with submodules: > > $ git submodule update --init > # sub/ is created > $ (cd sub && touch a && git add a && git commit -am "Add new file") > [detached HEAD 8641889] Add new file > 0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 a > > $ git submodule update > $ ls sub/a > ls: sub/a: No such file or directory
$ cd sub
$ git checkout HEAD@{1}Ciao, Dscho