From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:21:59 -0400 Message-ID: <20091015042159.GA21701@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <7v7huxbtbk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vws2xa9lu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20091014230934.GC29664@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7viqeha2zv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20091015014737.GA9923@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Junio C Hamano , Daniel Barkalow , Jay Soffian , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 15 06:23:06 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MyHrk-0003Un-Kb for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:23:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751268AbZJOEWi (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:22:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750942AbZJOEWi (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:22:38 -0400 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:53173 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750776AbZJOEWi (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:22:38 -0400 Received: (qmail 3594 invoked by uid 107); 15 Oct 2009 04:25:32 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:25:32 -0400 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:21:59 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:08:59PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > IMHO this patch proposed by Daniel about the detached head is probably a > good compromise. It makes "confusing" operations more verbose to give > new users a better feeling while keeping the flexibility intact. And > increased verbosity is less annoying than decreased flexibility. And I don't think there is as much opposition to a config option to silence verbosity, because it isn't really a change in behavior. We already have advice.*, and if the new message is too annoying, we can get advice.commitDetachedHead. -Peff