Re: [PATCH] tone down the detached head warning

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 31, 2007, 23:25 UTC
Message-ID: <epr8e9$i7r$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070131231942.GB31145@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:10:37PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
>> This is not meant to frighten people or even to suggest they might be
>> doing something wrong, but rather to notify them of a state change and
>> provide a likely option in the case this state was entered by mistake.
> 
> I like this much better. Though I wonder in Carl's case if we can do
> even better, since the user is checking out a tracking branch. Does it
> really make sense to say "you are not on ANY branch"? Maybe instead:
> 
> -- >8 --
> git-checkout: note use of remote tracking branch when making detached warning

 
You can checkout a tag, not a remote tracking branch!

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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