From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 10:51:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/3] bisect: use a detached HEAD to bisect
Message-ID: <18487.62245.59892.442935@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805230823330.3081@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds writes:

> This is a general problem in gitk. 
> 
> It's worse than not showing a label, btw. If it doesn't realize what the 
> HEAD is (and it won't), it also doesn't show the fake "uncommitted 
> changes" commit(s).

I could make it show "HEAD" in a green box for a detached head easily
enough.  That could be ambiguous if you had a branch called HEAD, I
suppose, but having a branch called HEAD would be deeply confusing
anyway. :)  Do you have any alternative suggestion for how to display
a detached head?

Paul.