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Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:

> And that's why I proposed a checkout away from detached head just
> printing the name of the commit that was being left.
>
> Is there any other precious information that that solution would not
> address?

I do not think of any offhand, but "did we make commit since we
detached HEAD" was not a suggestion I made, so what I can think
of does not matter much ;-).