From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 07:05:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-branch: show detached HEAD
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:

> This makes git-branch show a detached HEAD as '* (no branch)'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> 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?