Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- Oct 14, 2009, 05:08 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20091014050851.GE31810@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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- <alpine.LNX.2.00.0910140037570.32515@iabervon.org>
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:44:34AM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
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> +char *get_detached_head_string(void)
> +{
> + char *filename = git_path("DETACH_NAME");
> + struct stat st;
> + if (stat(filename, &st) || !S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
> + return NULL;
> + struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
> + strbuf_read_file(&buf, filename, st.st_size);
> + strbuf_trim(&buf);
> + return strbuf_detach(&buf, 0);
> +}Would it hurt to tuck this information into HEAD itself, as we already put arbitrary text into FETCH_HEAD?
-Peff