From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: [1.8.0] git checkout refs/heads/foo checks out branch foo Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 16:00:30 -0600 Message-ID: <20110207220030.GA19357@elie> References: <20110207205934.GD13461@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff King , Martin von Zweigbergk , git@vger.kernel.org To: Sverre Rabbelier X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 07 23:00:58 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PmZ8e-0000S5-NL for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:00:53 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755087Ab1BGWAq (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2011 17:00:46 -0500 Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:51066 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755037Ab1BGWAp (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2011 17:00:45 -0500 Received: by fxm20 with SMTP id 20so5397824fxm.19 for ; Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:00:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=gMxuXafZm8Ru4HgT8jugOfnj/KKowJA4yf5Jor64l4I=; b=CgKixPJmox7yGUMWbwcdgLCR9xb8ogz+1sP3yQ12HdpqdWwdRa1UVC1y8tp+hwMG1Z oyvC5mSOPmlPELC+0adMKDO2XeGkxtx9EnJgiV57NU26P5+OHts66Kevj4hiWdUQ4eVl EtSyCOj3CUlWNwrxQnIc+3neAJPtuHsO8XjaY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=dUMnd15ExDQmUQFs0IHUchSkIEDKybGrXd0zSnFPKTv27laPeC1tU/Xo55pbcfaQzH sXZD11WyDUHiz8rqjEwPP+euBiHdfdrCDS/oHn2nODWbXWm/zl/DUfKCvpM7KtW5+lEy K85HdvOUrHv5QZ6zHqQONOEHDxKt3e/HC8FV8= Received: by 10.223.85.203 with SMTP id p11mr15497630fal.108.1297116043838; Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:00:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from elie (adsl-76-206-235-233.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net [76.206.235.233]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 11sm1451515faw.20.2011.02.07.14.00.40 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:00:43 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > Now _that_ is an excellent usability improvement, assuming we want to > encourage detaching HEAD... do we? Yes. -- 8< Subject: commit: document --detach synonym for "git checkout foo^{commit}" For example, one might use this when making a temporary merge to test that two topics work well together. This patch just documents the option. It is not meant for application without an implementation and tests for the option. Suggested-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder --- Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 880763d..698ae6c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [] +'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-n] [--detach] [] 'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [[-b|-B|--orphan] ] [] 'git checkout' [-f|--ours|--theirs|-m|--conflict=