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

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Johan Herland wrote:

On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Jeff King wrote:

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

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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.

Ok. Scratch that.

But what happened to the various suggestions in that original thread on 
adding a safety valve when _leaving_ the detached state (i.e. preventing 
the user from leaving their detached commits unreachable)?

It has been made unnecessary when the HEAD reflog started recording 
detached head states.


Nicolas