From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:16:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Detached-HEAD reminder on commit?
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0809031113580.23787@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <200809030945.08619.johan@herland.net>

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Johan Herland wrote:

> On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Jeff King wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 11:39:20PM +0200, Johan Herland wrote:
> > > I'm not sure I like this personally, but if we _really_ don't want
> > > newbies to shoot themselves in the foot, we could make "git commit"
> > > fail on a detached HEAD unless the user has indicated that s/he knows
> > > what's going on; i.e. something like this:
> >
> > This was discussed to death when detached HEAD was introduced, and the
> > decision was to go with the current behavior. Try looking in the list
> > archives around December 2006 / January 2007 if you are truly
> > masochistic.
> 
> Ok. Scratch that.
> 
> But what happened to the various suggestions in that original thread on 
> adding a safety valve when _leaving_ the detached state (i.e. preventing 
> the user from leaving their detached commits unreachable)?

It has been made unnecessary when the HEAD reflog started recording 
detached head states.


Nicolas