From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:58:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Detached-HEAD reminder on commit?
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0809021856310.23787@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vabeqi2n3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Perhaps instead of poposed patch we should simply put empty lines
> > to emphasize that we are on no branch:
> >
> >         # Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
> >         # with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit.
> >         #
> >         # Not currently on any branch.
> >         #
> >         # Untracked files:
> >         #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
> 
> That sounds sensible, easy and safe enough.

Yep.  And I would go as far as suggesting that the branch information be 
the first line of the lot:

# Not currently on any branch.
#
# Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
# with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit.
#
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
# [...]


Nicolas