Hi, On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, linux@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Can someone explain why committing on top of a detached head is a killer > feature and thinking up a name sooner rather than later is a huge > inconvenience? I agree that "because I could" is a weak excuse for this feature. But actually, I think it is more convenient to be able to play around with an idea, properly committing simple steps, and finally, if, and only if, it works as expected, make a topic branch of it. IOW: checkout v2.6.20 <hackhackhack> commit <hackhackhack> commit <hackhack.. Oh darn, it _cannot_ work after all, so let's forget about it. No hard thinking of a proper name, no cleanup required. Yeah, maybe not a killer feature, but maybe a butcher feature ;-) Ciao, Dscho - 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