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

> On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> 
> > 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)
> 
> I think this is wrong.  Git has multiple heads, and insisting on "not at 
> head" would be extremely confusing.