Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?

From: Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com>
Date: Jan 30, 2010, 06:25 UTC
Message-ID: <ron1-B18EFA.22250929012010@news.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v1vh8417w.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

In article <7v1vh8417w.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>,
 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Good suggestion.
> 
> I'd be happier if the description didn't say "SHA-1", but instead said
> "object name".
> 
> Also it would be nicer (just a personal preference) if a picture that
> forks only one branch forks it upwards, like this:
> 
>              o---o
>             /    
>     ---o---o---o
> 
> not downwards, like this:
> 
>     ---o---o---o
>             \
>              o---o

Just out of curiosity, why does this matter to you? Downwards seems more intuitive to me. Time should advance left to right and top to bottom IMHO.

rg