Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was

> I think the description used in CVS and SVN (and, I think, others) is that 
> you're not at the HEAD revision. I think they both account for the state 
> where you've checked out the revision by number that's the latest 
> revision, but you still can't grow the branch because you can't 
> simultaneously stay on r1000 (as requested explicitly) and add a new 
> commit.
> 
> So maybe the right explanation is:
> 
> $ git checkout master; git branch
> * master
> $ git checkout origin/master; git branch
> * origin/master (not at head)
> $ git checkout 123cafe^5; git branch
> * 123cafe^5 (not at head)