From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Difficulties in advertising a new branch to git newbies Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:31:01 +0100 Message-ID: <200701302231.02295.jnareb@gmail.com> References: <87odognuhl.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <20070130212511.GA5362@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Yann Dirson X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 30 22:29:54 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HC0Y5-0004bA-AV for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:29:53 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751532AbXA3V3u (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:29:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751528AbXA3V3u (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:29:50 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]:48781 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751468AbXA3V3t (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:29:49 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so1656373uga for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:29:45 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=kebyyFF/49n4qCiYbqPrvYctUyFV2nBMaYqqVMAlSu/z5oSaBOszGxMWKkgyF6JTa7UNCIeJc653ijz9Erc4enQJQ8852nHHv2byofsKrnpocRRDEODEmNOmrb+IrFAKGbUXm1YGzpJP+OLOT3WdJr10tvR9W3gV+v5IFJbAQeM= Received: by 10.67.121.15 with SMTP id y15mr10709160ugm.1170192585154; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:29:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from host-81-190-29-4.torun.mm.pl ( [81.190.29.4]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id o30sm11065410ugd.2007.01.30.13.29.44; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:29:44 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 In-Reply-To: <20070130212511.GA5362@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Yann Dirson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:02:40PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote: >>> I propose this warning be removed here. Otherwise, I either add text >>> to my instructions telling the user to ignore the warning message they >>> get, or else I go back to "-b build" and back to all the old problems >>> it causes. >> >> I rather leave warning, but (perhaps around 1.5.1) remove the >> instructions. RTFM (err... I'm not sure we have one about detached HEAD). > > Or provide a "-q" flag to silence the warning ? Well, it would be nice to have either when command is usually silent to have "-q" option to it, or have "-q" option to git wrapper (especially for gitweb). -- Jakub Narebski Poland