Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 16, 2009, 19:05 UTC
Message-ID: <7vvdiftb0d.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0910161821230.30589@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>

Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> writes:

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>> And such uncommitted changes would be lost in the big "undo the fetch
>> update" diff. So you'd have to do:
>> git reset --soft HEAD@{1}
>> git checkout --merge HEAD@{1}
>>
>> to keep them, while updating to the new state of the remote tracking
>> branch. Not quite intuitive, is it?
>
> I don't care what git has to do, I'm talking about the user experience

But Björn is showing two commands the _user_ has to type, iow, the comment is about the user experience.

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