On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: > On 2009-01-21, Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I deleted a remote branch which was pointed by HEAD, this way: "git > > push origin :master" > > > > Then for almost every git command, I get this error: "error: > > refs/remotes/origin/HEAD points nowhere!". > > > > I found this situation non-friendly. Fortunately, I could understand > > what's going on. But a new user might be confused. > > That's a pretty advanced command for a beginner. I have > people who're only using the GUI (in the presumption that it > will be less confusing or less powerful or whatever) and > have managed to right click on a remote branch, choose > "checkout this branch" and have made commits on it without > knowing they're not on any branch! I wonder if the GUI could handle this in a way that users would understand. This is qualitively like following a link to a spreadsheet in your web browser, having the browser launch your office suite and load the spreadsheet off the web; now you're interacting with a spreadsheet where you obviously can't save to the original location (which is some web site) and haven't provided a local filename to save as. I think the right thing would be to show it as "(Untitled)" and have a prominant button to make a real saved branch out of it. There's nothing all that strange about having a current "document" that has no filename yet; the strange thing is that a version control system has this capability. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank*
