On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 03:34:05PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Agreed. Presumably some expert mode config would imply -f > > automatically. > > No, I do not want an expert mode. I can probably live with "per session" > setting, that makes me decide to set or not set it when I detach, though. That makes the most sense to me. If "git checkout" could write metadata into HEAD (or into DETACH_HEAD, as in Daniel's patch), then checkout could record an "ok to commit" bit. And could also be used to change it after the fact. E.g.: $ git checkout --detach=commit origin/master $ git commit ;# should be ok $ git checkout --detach=examine origin/master $ git commit ;# complain $ git checkout --detach=commit HEAD $ git commit ;# ok I guess something like "rebase" should detach with "ok to commit", since it is planning on attaching the commits later. I'm not sure about "git bisect". I guess probably it should be "not ok to commit" to be on the safe side, and then somebody can "git checkout --detach=commit" if they want to. -Peff -- 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