On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Jay Soffian wrote: > >> > >> > $ git commit -m "blah" > >> > Cannot commit while not on any branch. Please use git commit -b <branch> to > >> > specify the name of a new branch to commit to, or use git commit -f to > >> > force a detached commit. > >> > >> The difference is that some experienced users depend on being able to > >> commit while not on a branch, and want to not get a warning for every > >> commit while not on a branch. > > > > I assume that the -f would silence any warning? > > 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. Agreed. Presumably some expert mode config would imply -f automatically. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html