Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I have been assuming the "main" thing Duy wanted to do was the last >> test (and the one below), but was this meant as an improvement for >> "git status" output during that state? > > On what basis are you making that assumption? List archive helps. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/217342/focus=217444 Not just that single message, but a few messages in the discussion that led to the design shows that we wanted both "at" and "from" to mean something sensible, when a "checkout" initiated by the end-user detached HEAD and we are not on any branch, even after making commits or doing resets. -- 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