From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:20:17 GMT
Subject: Re: GUI and detatched HEAD (was Re: Deleting remote branch pointed by remote HEAD)
Message-ID: <slrngnh051.hdg.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0901211705280.19665@iabervon.org>

On 2009-01-21, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
>> have managed to right click on a remote branch, choose
>> "checkout this branch" and have made commits on it without
>> knowing they're not on any branch!
>
> I wonder if the GUI could handle this in a way that users would 
> understand. This is qualitively like following a link to a spreadsheet in 

I'd be happy with a simple warning message saying "are you
sure you know what you are doing?" or words to that effect
:-)