From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:51:35 GMT
Subject: Re: git merging
Message-ID: <42B36207.3020209@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0506171629320.2268@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok. The most likely reason is that your main branch is not a symlink to 
> ".git/refs/***" at all, but just a regular ".git/HEAD" file.

This is definitely not the case; my .git/HEAD is _always_ a symlink.

My git-switch-tree script, attached, demonstrates how .git/HEAD symlink 
is retargetted to the specified branch.  My workflow depends on 
.git/HEAD being a symlink.

I'll see if I can reproduce with the latest git.

	Jeff




#!/bin/sh

if [ "x$1" != "x" ]
then
	if [ ! -f .git/refs/heads/$1 ]
	then
		echo Branch $1 not found.
		exit 1
	fi

	( cd .git && rm -f HEAD && ln -s refs/heads/$1 HEAD )
fi

git-read-tree -m HEAD && git-checkout-cache -q -f -u -a