Re: [PATCH] Detached HEAD (experimental)

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jan 10, 2007, 14:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20070110140432.GA20868@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701091539050.3594@woody.osdl.org>

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:46:32PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I would suggest a solution:
> 
>  - git checkout will refuse to switch AWAY from a detached head unless the 
>    SHA1 of the detached head exactly matches some other branch.

What about

  git checkout HEAD~20

I agree that checking out tags will be more common, but it feels like we are discouraging this usage by presenting spurious warning messages.

-Peff

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