Junio C Hamano wrote: > The first line from status in the middle of > a rebase is secondary. End-user initiated "checkout" to detach is > the primary thing. > >> 3. The problem is not unique to rebase at all; yet you have >> special-cased it. If this isn't a band-aid, what is? > > It is an illustration for approach (2) in the other message. > > In the longer term, you would want richer status output for various > detached state, and that "how about this" patch shows where new code > to support other cases should be added. Fine. If that is what you want, we'll have to special-case every known script-in-progress to stop writing the usual "HEAD detached from" message. That'll leave out only the "end-user cases", where you argue that the message is helpful. -- 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