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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] builtin-checkout: suggest creating local branch
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:57:52 -0400
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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 05:31:46PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> I personally think that the real issue is that our "detached HEAD" message 
> is still too scary, and what we really want is to issue the scary message 
> when using "git commit" to move a detached HEAD from what was checked out 
> to a new commit. So:

This has been discussed before (I happen to agree with you, but you
probably want to address other comments in the thread):

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/38201/focus=38213

-Peff