Re: [RFC] Introduce .git/BRANCH to point to the current branch

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 4, 2007, 20:46 UTC
Message-ID: <7vir3e428i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <m34peyur8r.fsf@roke.D-201>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

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>> Currently, I can do:
>> 
>> # Oh, what did this look like two commits ago?
>> $ git checkout HEAD^^
>> # Ah, OK, let's go back to the tip
>> $ git checkout branch-name
>>                ^^^^^^^^^^^
>> But I have to remember and re-type the branch name.
>
> No, you don't have. You can use
>   $ git checkout ORIG_HEAD
> or
>   $ git checkout HEAD@{1}

But the point is he wants to go back to the branch he came from. He does not want to detach HEAD at the original commit.

Having said that, I am not sympathetic to "I have to remember".