From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!? Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:21:23 -0800 Message-ID: <7v1vh8417w.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7vaavwh6yh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vy6jgcutb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7viqakcu56.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vbpgc8fhb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <76718491001292052x7f46d479lfeff7b66121502c3@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jay Soffian , Ron Garret , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 30 06:21:46 2010 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 1Nb5mC-0006XB-CO for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:21:44 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751174Ab0A3FVj (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:21:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751040Ab0A3FVj (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:21:39 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:55534 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750919Ab0A3FVf (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:21:35 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9044095216; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:21:34 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:in-reply-to:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=F4O6q5ej/Olaf7X/IjcKpbVjubw=; b=FGgGUp eAnmNAKZYYgGf38BChC39iVY2vcDDH6grX5XvIFSiEOA36fVJ1XWQala7L7dy+Qc DYbmeAq5/uzLQt64+0P1FZ4B/pq49ZNnwEpI4JDD71Y1K33YgcfsfDO9J7K8RHc4 XSOO4jEZ5ZBifHuHYInnzCTz4K2hfIa6Nhbh4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:in-reply-to:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=tQnpE5H4RsW3VQ8+nVRtj6Z6qd7UyzCG KCvmbbZiPiecnI9/sGH1z1bbwJYMbCeqUHGbFSCKpfsY+SxjFz6dzl0lTKnUP0QT YxqoUKNHlQ2XiUnCi3yMRQtdrnMvuLnWq6apUgf7USdobgta2OJjH35Qr1gN2+sU busraKXccqo= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F36D951E1; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:21:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4E682951E0; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:21:25 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Nicolas Pitre's message of "Sat\, 30 Jan 2010 00\:15\:06 -0500 \(EST\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 5294E4AA-0D5F-11DF-9B43-6AF7ED7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nicolas Pitre writes: > Could you please take this really nice explanation and make it into a > patch adding a "Detached HEAD" section in the git-checkout.txt manual > page please? Good suggestion. I'd be happier if the description didn't say "SHA-1", but instead said "object name". Also it would be nicer (just a personal preference) if a picture that forks only one branch forks it upwards, like this: o---o / ---o---o---o not downwards, like this: ---o---o---o \ o---o