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Re: ephemeral-branches instead of detached-head?

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 12, 2013, 07:39 UTC
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<20130812073942.GA18948@elie.Belkin>
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David Jeske wrote:
>                                  Ephemeral branch names would be
> local-only and would never be pushed.

That's how normal branch names behave (local branch names and remote branch names live in different namespaces). How would the proposed detached HEAD replacement compare to them? Would the temporary branch created by checking out a random commit be automatically deleted when checking out another branch, or would it be garbage-collected at some point later?

Curious, Jonathan

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  1. David JeskeAug 12, 2013
  2. Jonathan NiederAug 12, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2013
  4. David JeskeAug 12, 2013
  5. David JeskeAug 12, 2013
  6. Duy NguyenAug 12, 2013
  7. Andreas SchwabAug 12, 2013
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2013
  9. David JeskeAug 12, 2013
  10. David JeskeAug 12, 2013
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2013
  12. Duy NguyenAug 13, 2013
  13. Junio C HamanoAug 13, 2013
  14. Sitaram ChamartyAug 14, 2013
  15. Junio C HamanoAug 14, 2013
  16. Sitaram ChamartyAug 14, 2013
  17. Jeff KingAug 14, 2013
  18. Andres PereraAug 14, 2013
  19. Sitaram ChamartyAug 14, 2013
  20. Andres PereraAug 14, 2013
  21. Duy NguyenAug 13, 2013
  22. Fwd: ephemeral-branches instead of detached-head?David Jeske, Aug 13, 2013
  23. Junio C HamanoAug 13, 2013
  24. Junio C HamanoAug 13, 2013

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