tone down the detached head warning

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.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/git-checkout.sh b/git-checkout.sh
index 8500f51ea27054d328be6e7e53c9f14d0d9c1979..0bae86e325eba0326e29c73ffbaafa0e8eda897f 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-checkout.sh
+++ b/git-checkout.sh
@@ -155,9 +155,9 @@ then
        detached="$new"
        if test -n "$oldbranch"
        then
        detached="$new"
        if test -n "$oldbranch"
        then

-               detach_warn="warning: you are not on ANY branch anymore.
-If you meant to create a new branch from this checkout, you may still do
-so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again.  Example:
+               detach_warn="Note: you are not on ANY branch anymore.
+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>"
        fi
 elif test -z "$oldbranch" && test -n "$branch"
   git checkout -b <new_branch_name>"
        fi
 elif test -z "$oldbranch" && test -n "$branch"