From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:03:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Detached HEAD (experimental)
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:
> 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.