From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tone down the detached head warning
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:25:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <epr8e9$i7r$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070131231942.GB31145@coredump.intra.peff.net
Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:10:37PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>
>> This is not meant to frighten people or even to suggest they might be
>> doing something wrong, but rather to notify them of a state change and
>> provide a likely option in the case this state was entered by mistake.
>
> I like this much better. Though I wonder in Carl's case if we can do
> even better, since the user is checking out a tracking branch. Does it
> really make sense to say "you are not on ANY branch"? Maybe instead:
>
> -- >8 --
> git-checkout: note use of remote tracking branch when making detached warning
You can checkout a tag, not a remote tracking branch!
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-31 23:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-31 19:10 [PATCH] tone down the detached head warning Nicolas Pitre
2007-01-31 23:19 ` Jeff King
2007-01-31 23:25 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2007-01-31 23:27 ` Jeff King
2007-01-31 23:33 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-31 23:54 ` Carl Worth
2007-02-01 0:14 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-01 8:44 ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-01 12:48 ` Matthias Lederhofer
2007-02-01 0:11 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-01 3:00 ` Jeff King
2007-02-01 3:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-01 3:29 ` Jeff King
2007-02-01 3:47 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-01 3:54 ` Jeff King
2007-02-01 9:08 ` [PATCH] detached HEAD -- finishing touches Junio C Hamano
2007-02-01 9:46 ` Raimund Bauer
2007-02-01 9:53 ` Alex Riesen
2007-02-01 9:54 ` Alex Riesen
2007-02-01 18:44 ` [PATCH] git-checkout: disable guides how to switch branches with ui.guide Matthias Lederhofer
2007-02-01 20:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-01 20:51 ` Matthias Lederhofer
2007-02-01 21:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-01 21:23 ` Matthias Lederhofer
2007-02-01 21:34 ` Carl Worth
2007-02-01 21:59 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-01 22:16 ` Carl Worth
2007-02-01 23:18 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-01 21:52 ` [PATCH] detached HEAD -- finishing touches Theodore Tso
2007-02-02 1:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-02 1:16 ` Theodore Tso
2007-02-02 1:27 ` Carl Worth
2007-02-02 1:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-02 1:46 ` Carl Worth
2007-02-02 2:38 ` Junio C Hamano
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