Linus Torvalds writes: > This is a general problem in gitk. > > It's worse than not showing a label, btw. If it doesn't realize what the > HEAD is (and it won't), it also doesn't show the fake "uncommitted > changes" commit(s). I could make it show "HEAD" in a green box for a detached head easily enough. That could be ambiguous if you had a branch called HEAD, I suppose, but having a branch called HEAD would be deeply confusing anyway. :) Do you have any alternative suggestion for how to display a detached head? Paul. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html