On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:10:37PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > This is not meant to frighten people or even to suggest they might be
> > doing something wrong, but rather to notify them of a state change and
> > provide a likely option in the case this state was entered by mistake.
> 
> I like this much better. Though I wonder in Carl's case if we can do
> even better, since the user is checking out a tracking branch. Does it
> really make sense to say "you are not on ANY branch"? Maybe instead:
> 
[...]
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> +		case "$detached_remote" in
> +		  "") detach_warn="Note: you are not on ANY branch anymore." ;;
> +		   *) detach_warn="Note: you are on the remote tracking branch '$detached_remote'" ;;
> +		esac

No.  This is misleading.

You are _not_ on the remote tracking branch.  You just happen to have 
checked out a commit that came from a tracking branch, but you are still 
detached from any branch at that point.


Nicolas
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