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RE: 'HEAD' is not a commit (according to git-checkout)

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Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date
May 27, 2020, 15:52 UTC
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On May 27, 2020 11:44 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 09:15:33AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> So, should we allow a random upstream & start-point combination?  It
> >> appears to me that as long as they share _some_ common ancestory, it
> >> may make sense.
> >
> > But wouldn't just about any two tips in a repository share some common
> > ancestry?
> 
> Yes, we are on the same page; the above was my round-about way to say
> that it does not look useful to restrict the allowed combination in order to
> give us some safety.
I have seen some strange ones, as part of migrating from other SCM solutions to git, where there were two completely unrelated histories - at least temporarily until stitched together towards the end of the migration. I don't think the assumption about common ancestry holds generally. I might have misunderstood, though.
Randall
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Message 14 of 16 in “'HEAD' is not a commit (according to git-checkout)”
  1. Dana DahlstromMay 21, 2020
  2. Jeff KingMay 21, 2020
  3. René ScharfeMay 23, 2020
  4. Jeff KingMay 23, 2020
  5. 1/2 checkout: add tests for -b and --trackRené Scharfe, May 24, 2020
  6. Jeff KingMay 27, 2020
  7. René ScharfeMay 28, 2020
  8. 2/2 checkout: improve error messages for -b with extra argumentRené Scharfe, May 24, 2020
  9. Jeff KingMay 27, 2020
  10. René ScharfeMay 24, 2020
  11. Junio C HamanoMay 24, 2020
  12. Jeff KingMay 27, 2020
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 27, 2020
  14. Randall S. BeckerMay 27, 2020
  15. Jeff KingMay 27, 2020
  16. René ScharfeMay 21, 2020

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