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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD
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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:48:29 -0400 (EDT)
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On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Jay Soffian wrote:
> >> 
> >> > $ git commit -m "blah"
> >> > Cannot commit while not on any branch. Please use git commit -b <branch> to
> >> > specify the name of a new branch to commit to, or use git commit -f to
> >> > force a detached commit.
> >> 
> >> The difference is that some experienced users depend on being able to 
> >> commit while not on a branch, and want to not get a warning for every 
> >> commit while not on a branch.
> >
> > I assume that the -f would silence any warning?
> 
> It won't help to alleviate my irritation if I need to give -f to each and
> every invocation of "git commit" while detached, though.

Agreed.  Presumably some expert mode config would imply -f 
automatically.


Nicolas