Ron Garret <ron1@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> For my rather fresh eye it looks more like unnamed (anonymous?) branch >> than a temporary one. Doesn't detached HEAD behave exactly like a >> regular HEAD but pointing to the tip of an unnamed branch? > > I strongly concur with this. > > And as long as I'm weighing in, it would also help to prevent confusion > if it were made clear that this unnamed branch doesn't actually come > into existence unless and until you do a commit. This shows that you are still thinking a branch is a line (or multiple lines). It is not. -- 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