Sergey Organov <sorganov@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 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).
Aren't you confused about what "on a branch" means?
After either of these two operations, your HEAD may point at the
same commit, but the former is on a branch (the master branch), and
the latter is not.
git checkout master
git checkout master^0
The difference between these two states does *NOT* come from which
commit HEAD points at.
The difference comes from what happens when you make a new commit
starting from that state. The former (i.e. you are on a branch)
grows the branch. The latter (i.e. you are not on a branch) does
not grow any branch.
This is an unrelated trivia, but did anybody know that we were
pretty much on the detached HEAD all the time for more than a month
of early life of Git, until cad88fdf (git-init-db: set up the full
default environment, 2005-05-30)?
