From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:49:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Missing features in git
Message-ID: <20061114174939.GB4299@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <200611141845.18930.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dnia wtorek 14. listopada 2006 18:36, Karl Hasselström napisa?:
> >
> > For example, we could skip the "bisect" branch, since
> > you aren't supposed to commit to that anyway.
> 
> Well, to have "branch" to which you could not commit, just put ref
> outside refs/heads. 
> 
> Another solution would be to be able to put non-head ref in HEAD,
> but allow to commit only if the prefix is refs/heads/

That's not a bad idea.  Then you can checkout a tag and have
'ref: refs/tags/v1.11' in HEAD, which means anyone who puts
$(git-symbolic-ref) calls into their PS1 will see "refs/tags/v1.11"
as their current branch, reminding them they are looking at the past.

Doing bisect branch in refs/bisect rather than refs/heads/bisect
would then likewise remind the user that they are bisecting, and
since neither matches refs/heads/* you cannot commit.

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