On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:11:34PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > No. This is misleading. > > You are _not_ on the remote tracking branch. You just happen to have > checked out a commit that came from a tracking branch, but you are still > detached from any branch at that point. Sure, but that is a very subtle distinction that I doubt will make sense to git newbies. Having them check out what they consider to be a branch (and which is, in fact, a line of development -- just not one that you have locally marked as a head) and responding with "you are not on ANY branch" is a little off-putting. Is there some text we can use that makes more sense in all situations? I think part of the "scariness" of the message is that git-checkout does not _usually_ produce output. I wonder if, when switching HEAD, it usually printed "Now on branch <foo>", and for detached printed some special variant, it would seem more natural. -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