Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > But to help "some users are not aware of this" situation, an opt-in > "feature" would not help all that much. The same number of lines in > the documentation to tell end-users how to toggle on such a "safety" > feature can be spent to teach them that their local changes in the > working tree do *not* belong to any particular branch, and as soon > as it is understood, the user would be OK. > > So... It might help if we treat this similarly to how we treat the "detached HEAD" state. By default when you do "git checkout HEAD^0" (not "git checkout --detach HEAD"), you would get a large warning, which you can silence by the advice.detachedhead configuration. In addition to the list of "these paths have local modifications" that we show as a reminder, perhaps you want to show a warning that tells the user that the local modifications in these paths are not recorded anywhere else, or somesuch, and silence it with a new advice.* variable?