"git checkout" automatically detaches branches and --detach is not
that useful (--no-detach is more likely). But for "switch", you
may want to use it more often once you're used to detached HEAD. This
of course adds -d to git-checkout but it does not harm (yet?) to do it.
---
 builtin/checkout.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
index 2e150f0175..0866aeba83 100644
--- a/builtin/checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout.c
@@ -1396,7 +1396,7 @@ static struct option *add_common_switch_branch_options(
        struct checkout_opts *opts, struct option *prevopts)
 {
        struct option options[] = {
-               OPT_BOOL(0, "detach", &opts->force_detach, N_("detach HEAD at 
named commit")),
+               OPT_BOOL('d', "detach", &opts->force_detach, N_("detach HEAD at 
named commit")),
                OPT_SET_INT('t', "track",  &opts->track, N_("set upstream info 
for new branch"),
                        BRANCH_TRACK_EXPLICIT),
                OPT_STRING(0, "orphan", &opts->new_orphan_branch, 
N_("new-branch"), N_("new unparented branch")),
-- 
2.21.0.rc1.337.gdf7f8d0522

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