Re: [PATCH] git-branch: show detached HEAD

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jan 3, 2007, 07:05 UTC
Message-ID: <7v1wmcr3nz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <1167780131528-git-send-email-hjemli@gmail.com>

Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> writes:

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> This makes git-branch show a detached HEAD as '* (no branch)'.
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> Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
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> This might be a premature patch. But if/when we allow HEAD to be detached, 
> git-branch should tell us that HEAD is the current 'branch'.

I fully agree with the motivation, but 100 lines of change to adjust only to detached HEAD seems too much. What else is going on in this patch, I wonder...

Can we have two patches, one for loop restructuring without detached HEAD support, and then another to add support for it?

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