From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:07:25 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Detached HEAD (experimental) Message-ID: <20070110010725.GI30023@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <20070110010312.GA25265@fieldses.org> "J. Bruce Fields" wrote: > 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. Yes. Then that removes my desire for a safety check in reset, (which Linus doesn't want) thereby making both of us happy. -- Shawn.