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Re: several quick questions

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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Feb 14, 2006, 20:27 UTC
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<20060214202728.GE31278@pasky.or.cz>
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<87fymlvgzv.wl%cworth@cworth.org>

Dear diary, on Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:10:28PM CET, I got a letter where Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> said that...

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> That gives a very natural name, "seek", for the operation I'd like.
> 
> How about "git seek" for doing the operations above, and using some
> reserved branch name, (say "seek"). Then, git-bisect could easily be
> built on that, and git-commit could respect the "seek" name and refuse
> to commit to it, (could tell the user how to create the branch
> necessary to commit from the current point).
> 
> There could also be a "git seek reset" to return to the HEAD saved by
> the first in a chain of "git seek" operations.
> 
> That looks like I minor generalization of existing behavior in
> git-bisect, but it would provide an operation that I would find
> useful.

Well, this is exactly what cg-seek does (and it's one of pretty old Cogito commands) - it even has the same name. ;-) See my other mail in this thread.

It works by creating a new branch cg-seek-point and storing the seeked point there; if HEAD is already on the branch, it merely changes the seek point and resets the working tree appropriately. cg-seek without any arguments will then return to your original head, whose name was stored in .git/head-name.

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Message 12 of 57 in “several quick questions”
  1. Nicolas Vilz 'niv'Feb 14, 2006
  2. Andreas EricssonFeb 14, 2006
  3. Nicolas Vilz 'niv'Feb 14, 2006
  4. Linus TorvaldsFeb 14, 2006
  5. Kenneth JohanssonFeb 14, 2006
  6. Andreas EricssonFeb 14, 2006
  7. Kenneth JohanssonFeb 14, 2006
  8. Linus TorvaldsFeb 14, 2006
  9. Carl WorthFeb 14, 2006
  10. Linus TorvaldsFeb 14, 2006
  11. Carl WorthFeb 14, 2006
  12. Petr BaudisFeb 14, 2006
  13. Johannes SchindelinFeb 14, 2006
  14. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2006
  15. Johannes SchindelinFeb 14, 2006
  16. Petr BaudisFeb 14, 2006
  17. Linus TorvaldsFeb 14, 2006
  18. Petr BaudisFeb 14, 2006
  19. Carl WorthFeb 14, 2006
  20. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2006
  21. New git-seek command with documentation and test.Carl Worth, Feb 23, 2006
  22. J. Bruce FieldsFeb 24, 2006
  23. git-seek: Eliminate spurious warning. Fix errant reference to git-bisect in docs.Carl Worth, Feb 24, 2006
  24. Junio C HamanoFeb 24, 2006
  25. Andreas EricssonFeb 24, 2006
  26. Junio C HamanoFeb 24, 2006
  27. Carl WorthFeb 24, 2006
  28. Johannes SchindelinFeb 24, 2006
  29. J. Bruce FieldsFeb 24, 2006
  30. Josef WeidendorferFeb 14, 2006
  31. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2006
  32. Josef WeidendorferFeb 14, 2006
  33. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2006
  34. More useful/hinting error messages in git-checkoutJosef Weidendorfer, Feb 15, 2006
  35. Andreas EricssonFeb 14, 2006
  36. Johannes SchindelinFeb 14, 2006
  37. Andreas EricssonFeb 15, 2006
  38. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2006
  39. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2006
  40. Andreas EricssonFeb 15, 2006
  41. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2006
  42. Petr BaudisFeb 14, 2006
  43. Carl WorthFeb 14, 2006
  44. Linus TorvaldsFeb 14, 2006
  45. Andreas EricssonFeb 14, 2006
  46. Johannes SchindelinFeb 14, 2006
  47. Carl WorthFeb 14, 2006
  48. Keith PackardFeb 14, 2006
  49. Linus TorvaldsFeb 14, 2006
  50. Keith PackardFeb 14, 2006
  51. Martin LanghoffFeb 15, 2006
  52. Keith PackardFeb 15, 2006
  53. Carl WorthFeb 15, 2006
  54. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2006
  55. Petr BaudisFeb 14, 2006
  56. Cogito turbo-introductionPetr Baudis, Feb 15, 2006
  57. Petr BaudisFeb 15, 2006

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