Re: [RFC] Detached-HEAD reminder on commit?

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 11:39:20PM +0200, Johan Herland wrote:

I'm not sure I like this personally, but if we _really_ don't want newbies 
to shoot themselves in the foot, we could make "git commit" fail on a 
detached HEAD unless the user has indicated that s/he knows what's going 
on; i.e. something like this:

This was discussed to death when detached HEAD was introduced, and the
decision was to go with the current behavior. Try looking in the list
archives around December 2006 / January 2007 if you are truly
masochistic.

-Peff