Re: [PATCH] git-gui: give more advice when detaching HEAD
On Sonntag, 13. Februar 2011, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
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> Heya,
>
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 09:42, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > That way, the traversal will terminate much sooner than computing the
> > true merge base.
>
> Since we want to use this in git-gui, do you intend to expose this as
> a command somehow (e.g. 'git rev-parse --reachable HEAD --all' or
> somesuch)?
What's wrong with checking the output of
git rev-list -1 HEAD --not --branches --tags --
for zero length?
-- Hannes