"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.
---
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
