From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 23:21:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout: honor advice.detachedHead when reattaching to a branch
Message-ID: <20110506232118.GA24794@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vbozfxwon.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 03:59:20PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > I tend to think (3) is now just useless.
> 
> Quite the contrary. If you do not want to pay the price of (4) that is
> useless most of the time, (3) is a cheap, space efficient and useful
> information that is essential to allow you to get rid of (4) without
> having to look at reflog.

Sorry, I should have been more clear. If you turn off orphan-checking,
(3) is just as useful as it always was. But _if_ you have
orphan-checking turned on, and it comes up negative, showing (3) is not
particularly useful. You already know you are not losing commits.

-Peff