Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 15, 2009, 21:26 UTC
Message-ID: <20091015212632.GA13180@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v1vl45t9k.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:52:55PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I like James's suggestion to allow us to store refs other than refs/heads/
> in HEAD to denote this state, and keep commit and reset from updating such
> a ref through updating HEAD.

Didn't we already consider and reject this the first time around? For example, this thread has a ton of stuff about how we shouldn't prevent people from making commits on the wandering state:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/35777/focus=35835

And here's me even advocating this exact strategy (and I'm sure I didn't think of it; it's probably discussed elsewhere, too):

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/35777/focus=35858

Not that I am not necessarily complaining, but I just hope this decision is "with new-found knowledge we are revisiting this decision" and not "we totally forgot about what came before".

-Peff