Sergey Organov <sorganov@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > ... > consider to introduce something like "--into-name=<name>" instead, that > will do this renaming unconditionally. Excellent. In the scenario I illustrated in the proposed log message, I used a throw-away temporary working area to prepare the history for a real branch, and detached HEAD is the perfect match for such a temporary working area. But it should not be a crime to use a real temporary branch for such use case. Thanks.