Re: [1.8.0] git checkout refs/heads/foo checks out branch foo

Heya,

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 21:59, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

As cool and clever as the foo^0 behavior is once you understand it, I
think it is a horribly confusing thing for non-experts. As part of this
proposal, should we perhaps offer "git checkout --detach" as the
easy-on-the-eyes way of intentionally detaching?

Now _that_ is an excellent usability improvement, assuming we want to
encourage detaching HEAD... do we?

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier