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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Detached HEAD (experimental)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:46:16 -0800
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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:

> ... Since committing on
> detached heads really should be a very rare case I don't think many
> people will find this terribly annoying.

Quite the contrary, I would imagine it would be quite natural to
do throw-away commits and merges on detached head while
bisecting the history (e.g. commit small fixup to make it
compile and then mark the result for bisection to hunt for real
bugs that are hidden by silly compilation problems).  

The check suggested by Linus would be safe enough for people to
whom it is "very rare" for their workflow to commitg on detached
HEAD anyway, so you should not burden "git commit" with such an
annoying warning messages.