Re: [RFC] Detached-HEAD reminder on commit?

[Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>]

On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Jeff King wrote:
> 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.

Ok. Scratch that.

But what happened to the various suggestions in that original thread on 
adding a safety valve when _leaving_ the detached state (i.e. preventing 
the user from leaving their detached commits unreachable)?

It seems to have been suggested (in various forms) by several people and 
generally well-received in the original thread, but nothing seems to have 
come of it (at least nothing that has survived till today).


Apparently masochistic,

...Johan

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