On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Jay Soffian wrote: > > When HEAD points at a branch, making a commit advances _that_ branch. And > > we say you are "on that branch". When HEAD is detached, because it is not > > attached to anything, it advances no branch. "detached HEAD" is detached > > in the very real sense. It is not attached to _any_ branch. > > Let me try wording this slightly different, because I think I can see > Ron's confusion. [...] Could you please take this really nice explanation and make it into a patch adding a "Detached HEAD" section in the git-checkout.txt manual page please? Nicolas