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 22:40:08 +0100 Message-ID: <200701302240.09212.jnareb@gmail.com> References: <87odognuhl.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <20070130212511.GA5362@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net> <7vwt34xksz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Yann Dirson , git@vger.kernel.org, Carl Worth To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 30 22:39:13 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 1HC0h6-0001CZ-Fl for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:39:12 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751684AbXA3Viy (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:38:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751711AbXA3Viy (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:38:54 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]:60191 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751678AbXA3Vix (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:38:53 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so1658542uga for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:38:52 -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=BsjWSF6QmXSHf4j+CxYn3/kHPmeaB1T1077uWwlDey8cq4HibnxW5ZRBlgr/vGdJZdkFgvCuwrMePDzfLUP3mbRmEschzrPBW+eoIt3/2AkFcEK+Jm5jWkf/JHAn/yIQH00J+csWc0WhtB18GR+OD2AJtE8eSRscSVCGYyMPLxk= Received: by 10.67.121.15 with SMTP id y15mr10720327ugm.1170193131754; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:38:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from host-81-190-29-4.torun.mm.pl ( [81.190.29.4]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 39sm9235870ugb.2007.01.30.13.38.51; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:38:51 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 In-Reply-To: <7vwt34xksz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > Yann Dirson writes: > >> 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 ? > > Or maybe make "-f" to mean "I know what I am doing, do not > warn". Unfortunately "-f" in git-checkout mean "force a re-read of everything." Besides I'd like to have "-q" option for example for git-cat-file for gitweb... > P.S. Jakub, *please* do not break the thread. I'll try. -- Jakub Narebski Poland