On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:05:29AM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote: > One might even argue that in case of ambiguities, checking out a > detached head would be most appropriate. Really, why impose creation of > certain local branches on a user at all, unless asked for? Detached > heads are natural in git! But I don't really expect positive consensus > on that one... I'm not sure that detached HEADs are all that natural. It means that: git clone repo-with-ambiguous-HEAD foo cd foo hack hack hack git commit -a -m msg is putting your commits "nowhere" (i.e., not on any ref). They are not accessible for pushing, and when you checkout another branch, they will be lost (except to the reflog). So it clearly requires that the user be aware of what is going on, and that they understand the subtleties of detached HEADs (something that has caused new user confusion before, I think). -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
