From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:35:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [bug] git checkout lies about number of ahead commits when switching from detached HEAD
Message-ID: <7vy64avdba.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110319224726.GC7116@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> but I'm not quite sure if this is the right place. Is it the
> responsibility of the checkout-orphan-warning code to clean up after
> itself, or is it the responsibility of a revision walker to clean up
> before itself?

Usually it is the former; the latter is generally impossible (unless it is
willing to clear everything), but the former knows where it started
traversal from.