Re: Missing features in git

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Nov 14, 2006, 22:09 UTC
Message-ID: <7v64dhznmx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611141037120.3327@woody.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

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> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote:
>> That's not a bad idea.  Then you can checkout a tag and have
>> 'ref: refs/tags/v1.11' in HEAD, which means anyone who puts
>> $(git-symbolic-ref) calls into their PS1 will see "refs/tags/v1.11"
>> as their current branch, reminding them they are looking at the past.
>
> I agree. This would probably be a good way to do "read-only branches".
> ...
> Junio, what do you think? It wouldn't even be backwards incompatible, 
> because we're strictly allowing a superset of what we used to..

(late reply -- just came back from a clinic)

I do not see any fundamental reason not to allow HEAD to be a commit that you cannot commit on top of because you are not on any branch, and I agree it is the right way to go.

I am not sure how much pain we are talking about yet though.