From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: [RFC] Detached-HEAD reminder on commit? Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:26:29 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1220383905-48316-1-git-send-email-pdebie@ai.rug.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git Mailinglist To: Pieter de Bie X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 02 22:29:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KacVK-0004bz-Lo for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:29:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751825AbYIBU23 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:28:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751721AbYIBU23 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:28:29 -0400 Received: from imag.imag.fr ([129.88.30.1]:40045 "EHLO imag.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751646AbYIBU22 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:28:28 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by imag.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m82KQhTU019448 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 2 Sep 2008 22:26:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1KacSL-0001db-LC; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:26:29 +0200 Received: from moy by bauges.imag.fr with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KacSL-0003J8-Il; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:26:29 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1220383905-48316-1-git-send-email-pdebie@ai.rug.nl> (Pieter de Bie's message of "Tue\, 2 Sep 2008 21\:31\:45 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (imag.imag.fr [129.88.30.1]); Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:26:44 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: moy@imag.fr Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Pieter de Bie writes: > + if (!strcmp("HEAD", head)) > + printf("You are on a detached head, so this commit " > + "has not been recorded in a branch.\n" > + "If you don't want to lose this commit, checkout a " > + "branch and then run:\n" > + " git merge %s\n", sha1_to_hex(sha1)); I'd say + "If you don't want to lose this commit, run " + "git branch \n" + "to create a named branch for the commit you just made"); (or whatever better wording you find, but I think suggesting to name the branch makes more sense that merging it) -- Matthieu