On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > > warning: you are now browsing the history without a local branch. You > > will not be able to commit changes unless you create a new local branch > > with "git checkout -b <new_branch_name>". > > This isn't true. You can commit on top of a detached head. In fact you > can do almost anything. "Commits you make will not be attached to permanent state unless you create a local branch"? I'm not sure how the feature turned out to work, but I know that (a) you're fine if you don't make any commits and (b) the behavior is more like what happens with anonymous checkouts of other people's repositories in non-distributed SCMs, so people will tend to underestimate what they can do with this, rather than overestimating it and getting into trouble. I suppose it's reasonable to warn at commit time, if we ended up going with allowing commits like normal. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* - 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