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Junio C Hamano
798123af21 Rename get_ident() to fmt_ident() and make it available to outside
This makes the functionality of ident.c::get_ident() available to
other callers.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-04 17:50:14 -08:00
Gerrit Pape
11dbe9e880 git-archimport: initial import needs empty directory
git-archimport should better refuse to start an initial import if the
current directory is not empty.

(http://bugs.debian.org/400508)

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-04 17:05:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
756373da25 Revert "Allow branch.*.merge to talk about remote tracking branches."
This reverts commit 80c797764a.

Back when I committed this, it seemed to be a good idea.  People
who always use remote tracking branches can optionally use the
local name they happen to use to specify what to merge, which meant
that I did not have to teach them why we use the name at the remote
side every time they are confused.

But allowing it seems to break other people's scripts.  The real
solution is not to allow more ways to express the same thing, but
to educate people to use the right syntax.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-04 16:58:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d1f289c5aa Merge branch 'np/dreflog'
* np/dreflog:
  show-branch -g: default to the current branch.
  Let git-checkout always drop any detached head
  Enable HEAD@{...} and make it independent from the current branch
  scan reflogs independently from refs
  add reflog when moving HEAD to a new branch
  create_symref(): do not assume pathname from git_path() persists long enough
  add logref support to git-symbolic-ref
  move create_symref() past log_ref_write()
  add reflog entries for HEAD when detached
  enable separate reflog for HEAD
  lock_ref_sha1_basic(): remember the original name of a ref when resolving it
  make reflog filename independent from struct ref_lock
2007-02-04 16:54:47 -08:00
Robin Rosenberg
6e2e1cfb81 Why is it bad to rewind a branch that has already been pushed out?
Mention git-revert as an alternative to git-reset to revert changes.

Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-04 11:43:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1f7d1a53fe git-clone --reference: saner handling of borrowed symrefs.
When using --reference to borrow objects from a neighbouring
repository while cloning, we copy the entire set of refs under
temporary "refs/reference-tmp/refs" space and set up the object
alternates.  However, a textual symref copied this way would not
point at the right place, and causes later steps to emit error
messages (which is harmless but still alarming).  This is most
visible when using a clone created with the separate-remote
layout as a reference, because such a repository would have
refs/remotes/origin/HEAD with 'ref: refs/remotes/origin/master'
as its contents.

Although we do not create symbolic-link based refs anymore, they
have the same problem because they are always supposed to be
relative to refs/ hierarchy (we dereference by hand, so it only
is good for HEAD and nothing else).

In either case, the solution is simply to remove them after
copying under refs/reference-tmp; if a symref points at a true
ref, that true ref itself is enough to ensure that objects
reachable from it do not needlessly get fetched.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-04 03:28:15 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
ec80489132 bash: Support internal revlist options better.
format-patch/log/whatchanged all take --not and --all as options
to the internal revlist process.  So these should be supported
as possible completions.

gitk takes anything rev-list/log/whatchanged takes, so we should
use complete_revlist to handle its options.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-04 00:18:41 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
b3391775e8 bash: Support unique completion when possible.
Because our use of -o nospace prevents bash from adding a trailing space
when a completion is unique and has been fully completed, we need to
perform this addition on our own.  This (large) change converts all
existing uses of compgen to our wrapper __gitcomp which attempts to
handle this by tacking a trailing space onto the end of each offered
option.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-04 00:18:41 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
78d4d6a281 bash: Support unique completion on git-config.
In many cases we know a completion will be unique, but we've disabled
bash's automatic space addition (-o nospace) so we need to do it
ourselves when necessary.

This change adds additional support for new configuration options
added in 1.5.0, as well as some extended completion support for
the color.* family of options.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-04 00:18:41 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
a925c6f165 bash: Classify more commends out of completion.
Most of these commands are not ones you want to invoke from the
command line on a frequent basis, or have been renamed in 1.5.0 to
more friendly versions, but the old names are being left behind to
support existing scripts in the wild.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-04 00:18:41 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
72e5e989b8 bash: Add space after unique command name is completed.
Because we use the nospace option for our completion function for
the main 'git' wrapper bash won't automatically add a space after a
unique completion has been made by the user.  This has been pointed
out in the past by Linus Torvalds as an undesired behavior.  I agree.

We have to use the nospace option to ensure path completion for
a command such as `git show` works properly, but that breaks the
common case of getting the space for a unique completion.  So now we
set IFS=$'\n' (linefeed) and add a trailing space to every possible
completion option.  This causes bash to insert the space when the
completion is unique.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-04 00:18:41 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
8435b54848 bash: Complete long options to git-add.
The new --interactive mode of git-add can be very useful, so users
will probably want to have completion for it.

Likewise the new git-add--interactive executable is actually a
plumbing command.  Its invoked by `git add --interactive` and is
not intended to be invoked directly by the user.  Therefore we
should hide it from the list of available Git commands.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-04 00:18:41 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
2e3a430a9a bash: Classify cat-file and reflog as plumbing.
Now that git-show is capable of displaying any file content from any
revision and is the approved Porcelain-ish level method of doing so,
cat-file should no longer be classified as a user-level utility by
the bash completion package.

I'm also classifying the new git-reflog command as plumbing for the
time being as there are no subcommands which are really useful to
the end-user.  git-gc already invokes `git reflog expire --all`,
which makes it rather unnecessary for the user to invoke it directly.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-04 00:18:41 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
9f4cc6f76b bash: Remove short option completions for branch/checkout/diff.
The short options (-l, -f, -d) for git-branch are rather silly to
include in the completion generation as these options must be fully
typed out by the user and most users already know what the options
are anyway, so including them in the suggested completions does
not offer huge value.  (The same goes for git-checkout and git-diff.)

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-04 00:18:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
632ac9fd12 show-branch -g: default to the current branch.
Now we have a separate reflog on HEAD, show-branch -g without an explicit
parameter defaults to the current branch, or HEAD when it is detached
from branches.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-03 23:34:22 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
dc9195ac78 Let git-checkout always drop any detached head
We used to refuse leaving a detached HEAD when it wasn't matching an
existing ref so not to lose any commit that might have been performed
while not on any branch (unless -f was provided).

But this protection was completely bogus since it was still possible
to move to HEAD^ while still remaining detached but losing the last
commit anyway if there was one.

Now that we have a proper reflog for HEAD it is best to simply remove
that bogus (and admitedly annoying) protection and simply display the
last HEAD position instead.  If one wants to recover a lost detached
state then it can be retrieved from the HEAD reflog.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-03 23:06:27 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
f2eba66d4d Enable HEAD@{...} and make it independent from the current branch
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-03 23:06:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d77ee72662 Merge branch 'master' into np/dreflog
This is to resolve conflicts early in preparation for possible
inclusion of "reflog on detached HEAD" series by Nico, as having
it in 1.5.0 would really help us remove confusion between
detached and attached states.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-03 23:05:34 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
8d0fc48f27 Default GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY to 5 during tests.
Its really nice to be able to run a test with -v and automatically
see the "debugging" dump from merge-recursive, especially if we
are actually trying to debug merge-recursive.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-03 22:04:34 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
183d79724f Keep untracked files not involved in a merge.
My earlier fix (8371234e) to delete renamed tracked files from the
working directory also caused merge-recursive to delete untracked
files that were in the working directory.

The problem here is merge-recursive is deleting the working directory
file without regard for which branch it was associated with.  What we
really want to do during a merge is to only delete files that were
renamed by the branch we are merging into the current branch,
and that are still tracked by the current branch.  These files
definitely don't belong in the working directory anymore.

Anything else is either a merge conflict (already handled in other
parts of the code) or a file that is untracked by the current branch
and thus is not even participating in the merge.  Its this latter
class that must be left alone.

For this fix to work we are now assuming that the first non-base
argument passed to git-merge-recursive always corresponds to the
working directory.  This is already true for all in-tree callers
of merge-recursive.  This assumption is also supported by the
long time usage message of "<base> ... -- <head> <remote>", where
"<head>" is implied to be HEAD, which is generally assumed to be
the current tree-ish.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-03 22:04:28 -08:00
Pavel Roskin
3dff5379bf Assorted typo fixes
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-03 21:49:54 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
0f39087589 Cleanup subcommand documentation for git-remote.
Jakub Narebski pointed out the positional notation in git-remote's
documentation was very confusing, especially now that we have 3
supported subcommands.  Instead of referring to subcommands by
position, refer to them by name.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-03 21:49:49 -08:00
Pavel Roskin
9673a0b182 git-config --rename-section could rename wrong section
The "git-config --rename-section" implementation would match sections
that are substrings of the section name to be renamed.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-03 21:35:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3b0f5e88ee combine-diff: special case --unified=0
Even when --unified=0 is given, the main loop to show the
combined textual diff needs to handle a line that is unchanged
but has lines that were deleted relative to a parent before it
(because that is where the lost lines hang).  However, such a
line should not be emitted in the final output.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-03 16:31:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a9d1836b10 Why is it bad to rewind a branch that has already been pushed out?
I was reading the tutorial and noticed that we say this:

    Also, don't use "git reset" on a publicly-visible branch that
    other developers pull from, as git will be confused by history
    that disappears in this way.

I do not think this is a good explanation.  For example, if we
do this:

(1) I build a series and push it out.

	---o---o---o---j

(2) Alice clones from me, and builds two commits on top of it.

	---o---o---o---j---a---a

(3) I rewind one and build a few, and push them out.

	---o---o---o...j
                    \
                     h---h---h---h

(4) Alice pulls from me again:

	---o---o---o---j---a---a---*
                    \             /
                     h---h---h---h

Contrary to the description, git will happily have Alice merge
between the two branches, and never gets confused.

Maybe I did not want to have 'j' because it was an incomplete
solution to some problem, and Alice may have fixed it up with
her changes, while I abandoned that approach I started with 'j',
and worked on something completely unrelated in the four 'h'
commits.  In such a case, the merge Alice would make would be
very sensible, and after she makes the merge if I pull from her,
the world will be perfect.  I started something with 'j' and
dropped the ball, Alice picked it up and perfected it while I
went on to work on something else with 'h'.  This would be a
perfect example of distributed parallel collaboration.  There is
nothing confused about it.

The case the rewinding becomes problematic is if the work done
in 'h' tries to solve the same problem as 'j' tried to solve in
a different way.  Then the merge forced on Alice would make her
pick between my previous attempt with her fixups (j+a) and my
second attempt (h).  If 'a' commits were to fix up what 'j'
started, presumably Alice already studied and knows enough about
the problem so she should be able to make an informed decision
to pick between what 'j+a' and 'h' do.

A lot worse case is if Alice's work is not at all related to
what 'j' wanted to do (she did not mean to pick up from where I
left off -- she just wanted to work on something different).
Then she would not be familiar enough with what 'j' and 'h'
tried to achieve, and I'd be forcing her to pick between the
two.  Of course if she can make the right decision, then again
that is a perfect example of distributed collaboration, but that
does not change the fact that I'd be forcing her to clean up my
mess.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-03 16:30:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
23913dc713 honor GIT_REFLOG_ACTION in git-commit
This allows git-cherry-pick and git-revert to properly identify
themselves in the resulting reflog entries.  Earlier they were
recorded as what git-commit has done.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-03 15:17:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5f856dd47d fix reflog entries for "git-branch"
Even when -l is not given from the command line, the repository
may have the configuration variable core.logallrefupdates set,
or an old-timer might have done ": >.git/logs/refs/heads/new"
before running "git branch new".  In these cases, the code gave
an uninitialized msg[] from the stack to be written out as the
reflog message.

This also passes a different message when '-f' option is used.
Saying "git branch -f branch some-commit" is a moral equilvalent
of doing "git-reset some-commit" while on the branch.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-03 12:54:49 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
eb8381c885 scan reflogs independently from refs
Currently, the search for all reflogs depends on the existence of
corresponding refs under the .git/refs/ directory.  Let's scan the
.git/logs/ directory directly instead.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-03 11:57:18 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
505739f6c0 core-tutorial: http reference link fix
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-02 23:17:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
bf3478de97 Tutorial-2: Adjust git-status output to recent reality.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-02 22:55:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
953202a3fd Tutorial: fix asciidoc formatting of "git add" section.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-02 22:19:17 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
3cf8b462d2 Don't leak file descriptors from unavailable pack files.
If open_packed_git failed it may have been because the packfile
actually exists and is readable, but some sort of verification
did not pass.  In this case open_packed_git left pack_fd filled
in, as the file descriptor is valid.  We don't want to leak the
file descriptor, nor do we want to allow someone in the future
to use this packed_git.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-02 21:33:18 -08:00
Andy Parkins
0d18e41e00 doc: hooks.txt said post-commit default sends an email, it doesn't
The default post-commit hook is actually empty; it is the update hook
that sends an email.  This patch corrects hooks.txt to reflect that.

Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-02 21:18:59 -08:00
Eric Wong
b6936205e7 Disallow invalid --pretty= abbreviations
--pretty=o is a valid abbreviation, --pretty=omfg is not

Noticed by: Nicolas Vilz
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-02 21:18:59 -08:00
Mike Coleman
aacd404e77 Fix some documentation typos and grammar
Also suggest user manual mention .gitignore.

Signed-off-by: Michael Coleman <tutufan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-01 22:45:04 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
c715f78369 Don't find objects in packs which aren't available anymore.
Matthias Lederhofer identified a race condition where a Git reader
process was able to locate an object in a packed_git index, but
was then preempted while a `git repack -a -d` ran and completed.
By the time the reader was able to seek in the packfile to get the
object data, the packfile no longer existed on disk.

In this particular case the reader process did not attempt to
open the packfile before it was deleted, so it did not already
have the pack_fd field popuplated.  With the packfile itself gone,
there was no way for the reader to open it and fetch the data.

I'm fixing the race condition by teaching find_pack_entry to ignore
a packed_git whose packfile is not currently open and which cannot
be opened.  If none of the currently known packs can supply the
object, we will return 0 and the caller will decide the object is
not available.  If this is the first attempt at finding an object,
the caller will reprepare_packed_git and try again.  If it was
the second attempt, the caller will typically return NULL back,
and an error message about a missing object will be reported.

This patch does not address the situation of a reader which is
being starved out by a tight sequence of `git repack -a -d` runs.
In this particular case the reader will try twice, probably fail
both times, and declare the object in question cannot be found.
As it is highly unlikely that a real world `git repack -a -d` can
complete faster than a reader can open a packfile, so I don't think
this is a huge concern.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-01 22:27:47 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
072db2789c Refactor open_packed_git to return an error code.
Because I want to reuse open_packed_git in a context where I don't
want the process to die if the packfile in question is bogus, I'm
changing its behavior to return error("...") rather than die("...")
when it detects something is wrong with the packfile it was given.

Right now we still must die out of use_pack should open_packed_git
fail, as none of use_pack's callers are prepared to handle a failure
from that function.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-01 22:24:17 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
54a15a8df2 Correct comment in prepare_packed_git_one.
After staring at the comment and the associated for loop, I
realized the comment was completely bogus.  The section of
code its talking about is trying to avoid duplicate mapping
of the same packfile.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-01 22:22:51 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
625e9421df Cleanup prepare_packed_git_one to reuse install_packed_git.
There is little point in having the linked list insertion code
appearing in install_packed_git, and then again just 30 lines
further down in the same file.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-01 22:21:19 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
859607dfe0 Teach 'git remote' how to cleanup stale tracking branches.
Since it can be annoying to manually cleanup 40 tracking branches
which were removed by the remote system, 'git remote prune <n>'
can now be used to delete any tracking branches under <n> which
are no longer available on the remote system.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-01 22:06:36 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
7a8c9ec1a9 Pull out remote listing functions in git-remote.
I want to reuse the stale branch detection to implement a new
'git remote prune' subcommand.  Easiest way to do that is to use
the same logic that 'git remote show' uses to determine the stale
tracking branches, then delete those.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-01 22:03:42 -08:00
Eric Wong
22600a2515 git-svn: do not let Git.pm warn if we prematurely close pipes
This mainly quiets down warnings when running git svn log.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-01 21:51:36 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
1e5db3075a Update the documentation for the new '@{...}' syntax
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-01 21:50:46 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
d271fd5311 Teach the '@{...}' notation to git-log -g
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-01 21:50:16 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
11cf8801d7 provide a nice @{...} syntax to always mean the current branch reflog
This is shorter than HEAD@{...} and being nameless it has no semantic
issues.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-01 21:49:28 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
fe55851624 prevent HEAD reflog to be interpreted as current branch reflog
The work in progress to enable separate reflog for HEAD will make it
independent from reflog of any branch HEAD might be pointing to. In
the mean time disallow HEAD@{...} until that work is completed. Otherwise
people might get used to the current behavior which makes HEAD@{...} an
alias for <current_branch>@{...} which won't be the case later.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-01 21:48:26 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
08f1675059 Use "git checkout -q" in git-bisect
Converts one use of git-checkout in git-bisect not to say "switching
to branch".  It looks like all the other cases it is friendlier to
give notice to the end user.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-01 21:47:34 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
6124aee5d9 add a quiet option to git-checkout
Those new messages are certainly nice, but there might be cases where
they are simply unwelcome, like when git-commit is used within scripts.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-01 21:36:47 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
92cf95696f reword the detached head message a little again
Seems clearer this way, to me at least.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-01 21:34:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e4b0e4ab8e detached HEAD -- finishing touches
This updates "git-checkout" to report which branch you are
switching to.  Especially for people who do not use __git_ps1
from contrib/completion/git-completion.bash this would give a
friendlier feedback of what is going on, and should make the
reminder message much less scary.

Here is a sample session (the prompt tells which branch I am on).

* I have some local modification and realize that the change deserves
  to be on its own new topic branch.

    [git.git (master)]$ git diff --stat
     git-checkout.sh |   10 ++++++++--
     1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

* So I switch to a new branch.  I get a listing of local modifications
  and assuring "Switched to a new branch" message.

    [git.git (master)]$ git checkout -b jc/checkout
    M       git-checkout.sh
    Switched to a new branch "jc/checkout"

* If I switch back to "master", I get essentially the same.

    [git.git (jc/checkout)]$ git checkout master
    M       git-checkout.sh
    Switched to branch "master"

* Detaching head would say which commit I am at and reminds me that
  I am not on any branch (not that I would detach my HEAD while keeping
  precious local changes around in any real-world workflow -- this is
  just a sample session).

    [git.git (master)]$ git checkout master^
    M       git-checkout.sh
    Note: you are not on any branch and are at commit "master^"
    If you want to create a new branch from this checkout, you may do so
    (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:
      git checkout -b <new_branch_name>

* Coming back to an attached state can lose the detached HEAD, so
  I get warned and stopped.

    [git.git]$ git checkout master
    You are not on any branch and switching to branch 'master'
    may lose your changes.  At this point, you can do one of two things:
     (1) Decide it is Ok and say 'git checkout -f master';
     (2) Start a new branch from the current commit, by saying
         'git checkout -b <branch-name>'.
    Leaving your HEAD detached; not switching to branch 'master'.

* Moving around while my HEAD is detached is Ok.  I still get the list
  of local modifications.

    [git.git]$ git checkout master^0
    M       git-checkout.sh

* The previous step that switched to the tip commit is an obscure but
  useful trick.  My HEAD is still detached but now it is pointed at by
  an existing ref, so I can come back safely.

    [git.git]$ git checkout master
    M       git-checkout.sh
    Switched to branch "master"

* And we are back on the "master" branch.

    [git.git (master)]$ exit

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-01 01:10:15 -08:00