clone: print advice on checking out detached HEADnd/clone-detached

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/advice.c b/advice.c
index e02e632df3..3e1a145bf0 100644
--- a/advice.c
+++ b/advice.c
@@ -64,3 +64,17 @@ void NORETURN die_resolve_conflict(const char *me)
 	error_resolve_conflict(me);
 	die("Exiting because of an unresolved conflict.");
 }
+
+void detach_advice(const char *new_name)
+{
+	const char fmt[] =
+	"Note: checking out '%s'.\n\n"
+	"You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, make experimental\n"
+	"changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this\n"
+	"state without impacting any branches by performing another checkout.\n\n"
+	"If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may\n"
+	"do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:\n\n"
+	"  git checkout -b new_branch_name\n\n";
+
+	fprintf(stderr, fmt, new_name);
+}