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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Julia Evans" <julia@jvns.ca>
Cc: "Julia Evans" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	 git@vger.kernel.org,
	"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] doc: checkout: rewrite detached HEAD state explanation
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:03:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqzewdfuhm.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01232f89-6f57-48d2-b6de-d51c91b6fdb3@app.fastmail.com> (Julia Evans's message of "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:55:38 -0400")

"Julia Evans" <julia@jvns.ca> writes:

> This is a case where if we really want to make sure it's clear, we need
> to go get feedback from users. There's likely a better way to explain it
> but I don't think that this conversation will result in an improvement.
> Really doing a good job of explaining HEAD is a pretty big project.
>
> It's not clear to me if you think the current wording is unusable
> or if you just think it could be better.

Then let me make it clear.

I do not know if your version is unusable or good enough, but if you
are going to take one version to guinea-pig readers to test and
polish starting from that version, I think what I gave you would
give us a better starting point.

Otherwise I would not be suggesting replacements (this applies to
all other points in the message you are responding to).

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2026-10-16 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-07 14:52 [PATCH] doc: checkout: rewrite detached HEAD state explanation Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2026-10-07 16:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-13 12:54   ` Julia Evans
2026-10-07 19:02 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-10-13 11:48   ` Julia Evans
2026-10-13 12:20     ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-10-13 12:27       ` Julia Evans
2026-10-13 12:42         ` Julia Evans
2026-10-13 13:01 ` [PATCH v2] " Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2026-10-14 18:52   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-14 21:10     ` Julia Evans
2026-10-15 20:58 ` [PATCH v3] " Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2026-10-15 22:39   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-16 14:55     ` Julia Evans
2026-10-16 17:03       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-10-16 18:35         ` Julia Evans
2026-10-16 19:05           ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-16 19:03 ` [PATCH v4] " Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2026-10-16 21:10   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-16 22:02   ` Junio C Hamano

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