From: Matt Draisey <matt@draisey.ca>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:28:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Detached checkout will clobber branch head when using symlink HEAD
Message-ID: <1224188939.2796.22.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810161619330.26244@xanadu.home>

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.