Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 19.07.2014 00:18: > Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> My use case for this is checking out the same branch (or commit, so >> already on a detached HEAD) in multiple different places to run >> independent actions (e.g. make test with different compiler options, or >> creating several different packages) and I would really appreciate it if >> that would keep working. > > I do not have any problem if multiple working trees have the same > commit checked out on their own detached HEADs at all. The "should > error out" was solely for the case where the user asked not to detach > but to obtain a state where a named branch is checked out. In such > a case, the command should not turn it into a detached HEAD, with or > without a warning. Exactly, all of that, plus: * "git checkout --detach --to foo bar" could/should be a way to spell out "git checkout --to foo bar^0". * In the case of erroring out, "git checkout" could suggest one of the above two commands. Michael -- 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