Re: [PATCH] Detached HEAD (experimental)

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jan 3, 2007, 11:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20070103115924.GA11136@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070103104620.GA27015@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:46:20AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

> Also, the implementation should be conceptually simple. Put
> refs/tags/v1.4.0 into HEAD on checkout. Disallow commit/merge unless
> HEAD points to refs/heads/*.

Let me take that back. It is actually still annoying to implement, since many things (at least commit-tree, branch) are unhappy with a non-branch in HEAD. Moreover, it's not as flexible as simply putting the commit sha1 into the HEAD, as you suggested. My suggestion allows only non-branch refs to be checked-out; however, it's likely somebody might want to git-checkout HEAD~10 or some other unnamed thing.

-Peff

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