From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:15:06 GMT
Subject: Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001300011290.1681@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <76718491001292052x7f46d479lfeff7b66121502c3@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Jay Soffian wrote:

> > When HEAD points at a branch, making a commit advances _that_ branch.  And
> > we say you are "on that branch".  When HEAD is detached, because it is not
> > attached to anything, it advances no branch.  "detached HEAD" is detached
> > in the very real sense.  It is not attached to _any_ branch.
> 
> Let me try wording this slightly different, because I think I can see
> Ron's confusion.
[...]

Could you please take this really nice explanation and make it into a 
patch adding a "Detached HEAD" section in the git-checkout.txt manual 
page please?


Nicolas