On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:11:43AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Hopefully the above made sense, but to be clear, what I think we should > > do is: > > > > 1. Suppress the "If you want to keep it..." advice on exit with the > > existing advice.detachedhead. > > > > 2. Optionally, if anybody cares (and I don't), introduce > > advice.detachedOrphanCheck to suppress the check entirely. > > > > 3. Optionally remove "Previous HEAD position" in the non-orphan case. > > I think it's superfluous, but it's so short that I don't really > > care either way. > > I think the above makes sense (sorry for replying a three-week old thread, > but I am trying to rid as many topics as I can from the Stalled category), No problem. I have an embarrassing number of stalled topics myself. > except that #3. might be useful after manually bisecting the existing > history. You may not be losing any commit (all are connected), but you > would be losing the point you have spent efforts to locate by switching > out. Yeah, I thought of the "you have found this point via some work" as something valuable but dismissed it because I couldn't think of a good example. But bisection is one such example. > I also think #2 would not be necessary; scripts that know what they are > doing should be using -q to suppress output from checkout anyway, and the > check is disabled in that case. Ah, I didn't realize that "-q" would suppress it, but yes, that makes perfect sense. > So on top of 8e2dc6a (commit: give final warning when reattaching HEAD to > leave commits behind, 2011-02-18), here is a re-roll. The output looks good to me. I have an almost-complaint, though. I applied on top of 8e2dc6a and did a quick test. It is actually quite bad there, because you get: Warning: you are leaving 1 commit behind, not connected to any of your branches: - some subject and nothing actually tells you the sha1 of the thing you are losing. :) However, once it is merged into master, you will get: abcd1234 some subject which is more helpful. Not a big deal, as that merge should happen before release. But you may want to just apply on top of my 0be240c (checkout: tweak detached-orphan warning format, 2011-03-20). > @@ -668,8 +671,6 @@ static void orphaned_commit_warning(struct commit *commit) > die("internal error in revision walk"); > if (!(commit->object.flags & UNINTERESTING)) > suggest_reattach(commit, &revs); > - else > - describe_detached_head("Previous HEAD position was", commit); > } Wait, I thought we were keeping this, per your argument above? -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