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Re: Detached HEAD warning (again)

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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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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

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