On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 11:39:20PM +0200, Johan Herland wrote: > I'm not sure I like this personally, but if we _really_ don't want newbies > to shoot themselves in the foot, we could make "git commit" fail on a > detached HEAD unless the user has indicated that s/he knows what's going > on; i.e. something like this: This was discussed to death when detached HEAD was introduced, and the decision was to go with the current behavior. Try looking in the list archives around December 2006 / January 2007 if you are truly masochistic. -Peff -- 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