Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> writes: > On 19/11/2020 01:51, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> writes: >> >>> An alternative in the other direction is to go with the 'not currently >>> on any branch' (detached at nowhere) but then require users to >>> deliberately create their first branch with their chosen name. This >>> moves the 'backward incompatibility' to a different place, which may be >>> easier to manage. >> As has already been mentioned by Peff, I do not think that is a >> workable alternative, especially given that people are generally >> afraid of and easily get confused by being on a detached HEAD. > Yes, our use of the technical phrase 'detached HEAD' is confusing, > compared with the more pleasant 'not on any branch', or 'not at a branch > tip'. Such is the curse of knowledge. To me "not on a branch [tip]" is also confusing, as in fact you are, as is easily seen after you perform a few commits, and now HEAD points directly to the tip of the branch (that has no other references). I wonder why Git didn't rather adopt "unnamed branch" or "nameless branch" to describe this mode of operation? -- Sergey
