From: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:35:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] prevent HEAD reflog to be interpreted as current branch reflog
Message-ID: <45C3684E.7090402@fs.ei.tum.de>
In-Reply-To: <200702021611.06029.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Andy Parkins wrote:
> Just because the virtual branch is stored in HEAD, I think it is 
> dangerous to thing of HEAD as being the thing that is logged - it is this 
> virtual branch that should be logged because that branch is always there and 
> can be tracked through time as a discrete entity.  If you track HEAD itself, 
> then sometimes it will hold the same as a branch reflog, sometimes it will 
> hold unique data.

hopefully, yes!  Having to know "uhm, that time I was detached, oh, no, that was a ref" is the variable.  The reflog we are talking about, no matter how it might be called or how its symbol is should track where my index wanders.  which is called HEAD, I think (sorry, I'm quite new to git).

So, to make it clear, when I do this:

git checkout master
git checkout build
git checkout master~1
git checkout dbcca21
git checkout master
hack && git commit -a

then i expect the "reflog to be named" to follow *exactly these steps:

master, build, master~1, dbcca21..., master, newmaster

and _not_ just

master~1m, dbcca21...

cheers
  simon

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