From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:40:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was
Message-ID: <20091014184018.GB15522@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vljjdese3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:34:44AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> >> 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