In article <7v1vh8417w.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > 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? > > Good suggestion. > > I'd be happier if the description didn't say "SHA-1", but instead said > "object name". > > Also it would be nicer (just a personal preference) if a picture that > forks only one branch forks it upwards, like this: > > o---o > / > ---o---o---o > > not downwards, like this: > > ---o---o---o > \ > o---o Just out of curiosity, why does this matter to you? Downwards seems more intuitive to me. Time should advance left to right and top to bottom IMHO. rg -- 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