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Re: Detached checkout will clobber branch head when using symlink HEAD

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MDMatt Draisey <matt@draisey.ca>
Date
Oct 16, 2008, 20:28 UTC
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On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 16:20 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> A symlink HEAD and detached checkouts are simply incompatible.

Not necessarily. The symlinking code will unlink the original inode each time it creates a new symlink anyway. It is simply a matter of creating a new file in its place.

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Message 7 of 15 in “Detached checkout will clobber branch head when using symlink HEAD”
  1. Matt DraiseyOct 15, 2008
  2. Jeff KingOct 16, 2008
  3. Matt DraiseyOct 16, 2008
  4. Nicolas PitreOct 16, 2008
  5. Jeff KingOct 16, 2008
  6. Nicolas PitreOct 16, 2008
  7. Matt DraiseyOct 16, 2008
  8. Nicolas PitreOct 16, 2008
  9. Jeff KingOct 16, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 17, 2008
  11. 1/3 demonstrate breakage of detached checkout with symbolic link HEADJunio C Hamano, Oct 17, 2008
  12. 2/3 Enhance hold_lock_file_for_{update,append}() APIJunio C Hamano, Oct 17, 2008
  13. 3/3 Fix checkout not to clobber the branch when using symlinked HEAD upon detachingJunio C Hamano, Oct 17, 2008
  14. Jeff KingOct 19, 2008
  15. Junio C HamanoOct 19, 2008

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