On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 01:19:58PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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? That would be helpful. But, frankly, if a user would be aware of that `advice.*' variable, he would have enough knowledge of Git to be aware of that situation. So, I think that 'M lala.txt' in transitions from branch to branch would be sufficient. --- Yubin