Re: [PATCH] detached HEAD -- finishing touches

From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Feb 2, 2007, 01:16 UTC
Message-ID: <20070202011608.GA18880@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v64alnz2q.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:11:09PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Didn't I already point out that you can have a precious
> information while on the detached HEAD without making any
> commit, and that is the reason why we do not use the
> reachability crud from refs when deciding to issue the message?

Sorry, I must be dense. Exactly what precious information can be ever be lost in the following sequence:

git checkout HEAD~1 git checkout master

such that it want to train users to be typing

git checkout -f master

instead?

						- Ted

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