Re: disallowing push to currently checked-out branch

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 16, 2009, 08:51 UTC
Message-ID: <7veixybw7u.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0902160322530.19665@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> In fact, if you expect to be pushing to a non-bare repository, you
> probably want to have HEAD contain the actual commit currently checked
> out (instead of a reference to externally mutable storage), which you
> can do with "git checkout refs/heads/master".

"git checkout master^0" is shorter ;-)

For people who do not follow the git list regularly, a "HEAD contain the actual commit" is often called "detached".

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