Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

We, the old Gits need to change.  Not the many other people.

Remember: you do not know how exactly the clutch interacts with the 2nd 
cylinder of the engine.  And you do not _need_ to.

Really, the detached HEAD concept can't be _that_ hard.  It is not like 
if we were asking our users to fully grok the blob/tree/commit hierarchy 
and delta compression heuristics to be able to work with Git.

Neither should Git users need to.

What you're asking for, though, is more comparable to asking old Gits to 
give up on their clutch and manual gearbox because most American Git 
users are expecting automatic transmissions.  Maybe that's not the case 
in Germany, but over here automatic transmissions are by far the norm 
and a manual gearbox can be obtained only in limited cases if at all.


Nicolas