Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Yep, it very well is. Also, that approach would tell you which branch is > checked out, though I don't consider that git log's business. > > OTOH, it's "backwards" in the sense that it marks the "ordinary" case > (HEAD is symref, branch is checked out) specially compared to the > "exceptional/dangerous" case (HEAD is ref, detached). Both are ordinary and there is nothing exceptional or dangerous about your HEAD temporarily being detached during a "rebase -i" session, for example. > And status, branch > will point out that latter case more verbously, too. Yeah, but as you said, that is not "log"'s business. -- 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