From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:39:41 GMT
Subject: Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001291935080.1681@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7viqakcu56.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> How about this?
> 
> -- >8 -- not a patch -- >8 --
> Note: 'master^0' isn't a local branch head;
> 
> You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, make experimental
> changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this
> state without impacting any branches by checking out another branch.

s/checking out another branch/performing another checkout/

> If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may
> do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:
> 
>   git checkout -b <new_branch_name>
> 
> HEAD is now at a9d7c95... Merge branch 'maint'
> -- 8< -- not a patch -- 8< --
> 
> Again, everything except for the last line would disappear by setting the
> advice.detachedHEAD configuration to false.

Looks fine to me.


Nicolas