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Re: [PATCH] gitk - dont warn when deleting synonym for current head

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Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>
Date
Aug 13, 2007, 01:10 UTC
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Paul Mackerras wrote:
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> Mark Levedahl writes:
>
>   
> Do you mean that HEAD was a direct ref to the same commit as the
> branch you were deleting, or that HEAD pointed to the branch you were
> deleting?  I.e. what was in .git/HEAD, a commit ID or a branch name?
>
> If the latter, then I think gitk was correct to warn, since you'll end
> up with .git/HEAD pointing to a non-existent branch, won't you?
>

current checked out branch = master HEAD contains ref: refs/heads/master foo points to the same commit as master I attempted to delete foo.

Note: the context menu does not allow deleting the currently checked out 
branch, so the referenced check is irrelevant to that.
Mark
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