From: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:58:56 GMT
Subject: Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?
Message-ID: <87aavsu9b3.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>
In-Reply-To: <7vpr4o3lg9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> Steve Diver <squelch2@googlemail.com> writes:

[...]

> If read carefully (some may argue that it does not need a very careful
> reading to get it, though), this hints that "detached HEAD" state is a
> substitute for using a temporary branch, but it may not be strong
> enough.

For my rather fresh eye it looks more like unnamed (anonymous?) branch
than a temporary one. Doesn't detached HEAD behave exactly like a
regular HEAD but pointing to the tip of an unnamed branch?

-- Sergei.