From: Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:52:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was
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)?