From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:22:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gui: give more advice when detaching HEAD
Message-ID: <201102131022.06863.j6t@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=3m3pvciKXgUXGffsA9xDddTum5mhWBoaWA3o+@mail.gmail.com>

On Sonntag, 13. Februar 2011, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
> 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