Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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- Oct 14, 2009, 18:40 UTC
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On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:34:44AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> >> AFAIR we still remember HEAD to be a symlink. > > > > I think that has been abandoned for detached HEAD (that is, if you > > support only symlinked HEAD, then you cannot detach at all). But I might > > be wrong. It has been a while since I looked at that code. > > If I understand what Daniel is doing correctly, the idea is to keep this > extra information only while the HEAD is detached, no? "HEAD itself > could be a symlink" is an irrelevant issue, isn't it?
Right. That is what I was trying to say, but somehow it didn't come out very clearly.
-Peff