On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 05:26:31PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > This incidentally also errors out --edit-description when the HEAD points > at an unborn branch (immediately after "init", or "checkout --orphan"), > because at that point, you do not even have any commit that is part of > your history and there is no point in describing how this particular > branch is different from the branch it forked off of, which is the useful > bit of information the branch description is designed to capture. > > We may want to special case the unborn case later, but that is outside the > scope of this patch to prevent more common mistakes before 1.7.9 series > gains too much widespread use. That sounds OK to me. I'm not even sure people will want to use "--edit-description" on an unborn pointed-to branch or not (I mentioned it only as "this is a plausible use case to me that we might be breaking"). I think people will still be figuring out workflows around it. So it's not a big deal to wait and see. -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