From: Alexandre Julliard Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:07:25 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout: Don't crash when switching away from an invalid branch. Message-ID: <87k5bea5uq.fsf@wine.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <7vbpwrf85x.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano writes: > For that matter, dying without removing the trace of that funny state > might be even preferrable if you need to do postmortem to figure out why > you got into such a funny state to begin with, but not everybody uses git > to debug git. It turns out to be user error, that was a tree I hadn't used in a long time and I didn't realize it was using alternates, so HEAD was pointing to a commit that had been rebased and garbage-collected in the source repository. Most other commands die with a "bad object HEAD" in that situation, and checkout could certainly do that too, but I think it's nicer to provide an easy way of getting out of that broken state. I'll resend an updated patch. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org