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[JGIT] missing feature: writing of a detached HEAD

From
Mark Struberg <struberg@yahoo.de>
Date
Jul 2, 2009, 21:05 UTC
Message-ID
<946532.38891.qm@web27803.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Hi!
As discussed with Shawn and Ilari on IRC, JGit is currently missing a way to write a detached HEAD.
I need this to implement a checkout of tags with JGit.

txs and LieGrue, strub
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  1. Mark StrubergJul 2, 2009

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