On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > These days, you can say "git checkout topic" to automagically create > a local "topic" branch that forks from "origin/topic" remote tracking > branch when you have one, thanks to Dscho's UI improvement ideas. As > such it is more appropriate to say that the user is checking out > something that is not a branch name, rather than saying it is not a > 'local branch'. > > Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@xxxxxxxxx> For the record, I'm providing a NAK. First I don't agree with the UI "improvement" if there is no way to check out a remote branch without creating soon-to-be-stall local branches with the same name. Next, the message can be made yet more clear and give the user more of a hint with what is going on. Something like: "%s is not a local branch head: creating a detached HEAD\n" plus the remaining clue lines. This way people will have a much greater chance of understanding what state they're in, and a simple Google search for detached HEAD gives you the Git manual page with the needed info. 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