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Re: [PATCH] gitk - dont warn when deleting synonym for current head

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Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date
Aug 12, 2007, 23:44 UTC
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Mark Levedahl writes:
> Selecting "remove this branch" on a branch equal to HEAD yielded a
> warning that this branch is not in any other: it is, it is on HEAD.

Do you mean that HEAD was a direct ref to the same commit as the branch you were deleting, or that HEAD pointed to the branch you were deleting? I.e. what was in .git/HEAD, a commit ID or a branch name?

If the latter, then I think gitk was correct to warn, since you'll end up with .git/HEAD pointing to a non-existent branch, won't you?

> Curiosly, this warning was not triggered for any other deletion and
> so is at best misleading. Get rid of it.
I'd rather fix it.
Paul.
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