On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 9:30 PM Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 12:09 PM Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 9:01 PM Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > should we do > > > something about detached HEAD in this switch-branch command (or > > > whatever its name will be)? > > > > > > This is usually a confusing concept to new users > > > > And it just occurred to me that perhaps we should call this "unnamed > > branch" (at least at high UI level) instead of detached HEAD. It is > > technically not as accurate, but much better to understand. > > or 'direct' branch? makes me think, what is an indirect branch? > I mean 'detached HEAD' itself is also not correct > as the HEAD points to a valid commit/tag usually, so it is attached to > that content. The detachment comes from the implicit "from a branch". Yeah I guess it's short for "HEAD that is detached from a branch" -- Duy
