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Re: Detached checkout will clobber branch head when using symlink HEAD

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 16, 2008, 20:22 UTC
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<20081016202202.GA9487@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:20:32PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
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> > so almost all my git repositories are still using a symlink HEAD.
> > I have some old scripts That I use occasionally and still depend on it.
> > Using detached checkout is the only problem I've had.
> 
> A symlink HEAD and detached checkouts are simply incompatible.

Agreed, but I think the complaint is not that it doesn't work, but that it silently clobbers the current branch when you try it.

-Peff
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Message 5 of 15 in “Detached checkout will clobber branch head when using symlink HEAD”
  1. Matt DraiseyOct 15, 2008
  2. Jeff KingOct 16, 2008
  3. Matt DraiseyOct 16, 2008
  4. Nicolas PitreOct 16, 2008
  5. Jeff KingOct 16, 2008
  6. Nicolas PitreOct 16, 2008
  7. Matt DraiseyOct 16, 2008
  8. Nicolas PitreOct 16, 2008
  9. Jeff KingOct 16, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 17, 2008
  11. 1/3 demonstrate breakage of detached checkout with symbolic link HEADJunio C Hamano, Oct 17, 2008
  12. 2/3 Enhance hold_lock_file_for_{update,append}() APIJunio C Hamano, Oct 17, 2008
  13. 3/3 Fix checkout not to clobber the branch when using symlinked HEAD upon detachingJunio C Hamano, Oct 17, 2008
  14. Jeff KingOct 19, 2008
  15. Junio C HamanoOct 19, 2008

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