From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:37:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] deny push to current branch of non-bare repo
Message-ID: <20081113053735.GA5343@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <f73f7ab80811122122i4ae3ba6dn2ceb314b86660a70@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:22:20AM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote:

> somebody to push something for me to test, they push directly to that
> repo, and when I'm done playing with a previous run I just do:
> 
> $ git checkout new/branch/to/test
> $ make clean
> $ ./configure
> $ make
> $ make check

OK, I see how using a detached HEAD makes sense. But I think just going
straight to a detached HEAD might make even more sense. With your
proposed behavior, you need to be prepared to unexpectedly and
asynchronously move to a detached HEAD at any time, so why not just
start there in the first place?

And then the "push to current branch" problem is neatly solved: you have
no current branch.

So:

  $ git checkout new/branch/to/test^0
  $ make, configure, etc

-Peff