From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:49:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Should "git log --decorate" indicate whether the HEAD is detached?
Message-ID: <xmqq8ufv2e62.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <54E4EBC4.6000802@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> Yep, it very well is. Also, that approach would tell you which branch is
> checked out, though I don't consider that git log's business.
>
> OTOH, it's "backwards" in the sense that it marks the "ordinary" case
> (HEAD is symref, branch is checked out) specially compared to the
> "exceptional/dangerous" case (HEAD is ref, detached).

Both are ordinary and there is nothing exceptional or dangerous
about your HEAD temporarily being detached during a "rebase -i"
session, for example.

> And status, branch
> will point out that latter case more verbously, too.

Yeah, but as you said, that is not "log"'s business.