From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:36:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [FIXED PATCH] Make rebase save ORIG_HEAD if changing current branch
Message-ID: <B8E7062C-8CE6-492B-BDB4-91993140739B@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080707111803.GF31490@mit.edu>


On Jul 7, 2008, at 7:18 AM, Theodore Tso wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 11:28:36PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> (1) ORIG_HEAD is not strictly necessary these days, because we have
>>     reflogs;
>
> True, but (and please correct me if I'm wrong) ORIG_HEAD will always
> be pointing out HEAD before the user typed pretty much any git
> porcelein command (which saves HEAD into ORIG_HEAD), but with reflogs,
> it you have to paw through multiple HEAD@{n} to find the 'n' which
> corresponds to state before executing the git plumbing command, since
> multiple git plumbing commands could have updated the HEAD's reflog,
> right?

This is _exactly_ why I wanted `pull --rebase` to set ORIG_HEAD.   
Reflogs are great in their own way, but having ORIG_HEAD regularly  
being available for a quick way to set it back or refer to the  
original state is just too useful.

~~ Brian