Re: [PATCH] Detached HEAD (experimental)
- From
- J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
- Date
- Jan 10, 2007, 01:03 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20070110010312.GA25265@fieldses.org>
- In-Reply-To
- <20070110003433.GH30023@spearce.org>
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:34:33PM -0500, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> Unfortunately .git/logs/HEAD wouldn't be created by default as its > not under refs/heads or refs/remotes. Though it could be made to be > on by default, in which case it would only log changes while HEAD > is detached. If HEAD is attached to a branch then .git/logs/HEAD > wouldn't be appended to (or even created), while the branch's own > log is still appended to.
That would also provide all the needed "safety valve" on git checkout, wouldn't it? Since you could always recover from
git checkout v1.4.0 git commit -m -a 'some changes' git checkout 41.2.0
by looking back through the reflog for HEAD.
--b.