Am 11. April 2017 22:40:14 MESZ schrieb "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@xxxxxxxxx>:
>On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Enis Bayramoğlu
><enis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Well, what do you suggest as an alternative?
>>>
>>> Git tells you that you are in detached state and where you came from
>>> (detached from).
>>
>> I think it'd be best if git status somehow indicated that you're no
>> longer at the same commit. Maybe something like:
>>
>> $ git status
>> HEAD detached from origin/master, no longer at the same commit
>> nothing to commit, working directory clean
>
>I'm not saying this is clear, I didn't know this until I read the code
>just now, but for what it's worth it says "detached at" if you're
>detached from BRANCH but at the same commit, and "detached from" if
>you're now on a different commit.
>
That's what I explained in my first reply which the OP quoted in a chopped way. I think he even misquoted the git output he got.
It's the difference between from and at.
>> or, to be more informative
>>
>> HEAD detached from origin/master 1 commit ago,
>
>In lieu of that, which would need some of the rev-list machinery to be
>invoked on every git-status, I wonder if just saying "HEAD detached &
>diverged from origin/master" wouldn't be clearer:
>
>diff --git a/wt-status.c b/wt-status.c
>index 308cf3779e..79c8cfd1cf 100644
>--- a/wt-status.c
>+++ b/wt-status.c
>@@ -1542,7 +1542,7 @@ static void wt_longstatus_print(struct wt_status
>*s)
> if (state.detached_at)
> on_what = _("HEAD detached at ");
> else
>- on_what = _("HEAD detached from
>");
>+ on_what = _("HEAD detached &
>diverged from ");
> } else {
> branch_name = "";
> on_what = _("Not currently on any branch.");
>
>
>
No way. That would reduce the information that we give.
Note that the difference between from and at is also: are there commits that we could lose when we switch away, that is: that git checkout would warn us about?
Maybe improve the doc instead?
>
>> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>>> Enis Bayramoğlu venit, vidit, dixit 11.04.2017 10:57:
>>>> I've encountered a very misleading output from `git status`. Here's
>a
>>>> sequence of events that demonstrates the issue:
>>>>
>>>> $ git --version
>>>> git version 2.12.0
>>>>
>>>> $ git checkout origin/master
>>>>
>>>> $ git status
>>>> HEAD detached from origin/master
>>>> nothing to commit, working directory clean
>>>
>>> Hmm. My Git would display "detached at" here as long as you are on
>the
>>> commit that you detached from.
>>>
>>>> $ git merge --ff f3515b749be861b57fc70c2341c1234eeb0d5b87
>>>>
>>>> $ git status
>>>> HEAD detached from origin/master
>>>> nothing to commit, working directory clean
>>>>
>>>> $ git rev-parse origin/master
>>>> e1dc1baaadee0f1aef2d5c45d068306025d11f67
>>>>
>>>> $ git rev-parse HEAD
>>>> 786cb6dd09897e0950a2bdc971f0665a059efd33
>>>>
>>>> I think it's extremely misleading that `git status` simply reports
>>>> "HEAD detached from origin/master" while this simply happens to be
>a
>>>> mildly relevant fact about some past state.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks and regards
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, what do you suggest as an alternative?
>>>
>>> Git tells you that you are in detached state and where you came from
>>> (detached from).
>>>
>>> Michael