Re: [PATCH 5/6] status: do not depend on flaky reflog messages

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 15, 2013, 10:26 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0nDwqqiAq044wwj__1XzAuFDBUG59_0zHRMNzQ6ARsiww@mail.gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

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>> I have been assuming the "main" thing Duy wanted to do was the last
>> test (and the one below), but was this meant as an improvement for
>> "git status" output during that state?
>
> On what basis are you making that assumption?

List archive helps.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/217342/focus=217444

Not just that single message, but a few messages in the discussion that led to the design shows that we wanted both "at" and "from" to mean something sensible, when a "checkout" initiated by the end-user detached HEAD and we are not on any branch, even after making commits or doing resets.