"git checkout" automatically detaches branches and --detach is not that useful (--no-detach is more likely). But for "switch", you may want to use it more often once you're used to detached HEAD. This of course adds -d to git-checkout but it does not harm (yet?) to do it. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/checkout.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c index d72e28aabb..a14133b474 100644 --- a/builtin/checkout.c +++ b/builtin/checkout.c @@ -1423,7 +1423,7 @@ static struct option *add_common_switch_branch_options( struct checkout_opts *opts, struct option *prevopts) { struct option options[] = { - OPT_BOOL(0, "detach", &opts->force_detach, N_("detach HEAD at named commit")), + OPT_BOOL('d', "detach", &opts->force_detach, N_("detach HEAD at named commit")), OPT_SET_INT('t', "track", &opts->track, N_("set upstream info for new branch"), BRANCH_TRACK_EXPLICIT), OPT_STRING(0, "orphan", &opts->new_orphan_branch, N_("new-branch"), N_("new unparented branch")), -- 2.21.0.548.gd3c7d92dc2