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

From: Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 14, 2009, 23:52 UTC
Message-ID: <loom.20091015T013728-831@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v7huxbtbk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes:

> It won't help to alleviate my irritation if I need to give -f to each and
> every invocation of "git commit" while detached, though.

I'm missing something fundamental here, I think. I simply don't see the advantage of branching after committing over branching before committing.

At worst, a temporary is cheap, eh? So what is the value of even allowing committing while HEAD is detached (aside from the historical argument)?

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