Re: [PATCH/RFC] Record original ref in detached HEAD

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 26, 2013, 14:57 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BJqoCVHm=jY+Y6LB_aKuyE5HsGA=eHmYur-Lfrp+PE4A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqsj4jqgy4.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

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> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Many times I checkout a remote branch, or a tag and after a while I
>> forget remember what ref I checked it out from. Saving the original
>> ref would help (or is it already saved somewhere?).
>
> It is :-). Try e.g.
>
>   git checkout --detach
>   git checkout -
>
> (analogous to "cd -": return back to where you were before)

Yeah. I always manage to forget reflog when I need it. Time to show the information in "git branch", oh wait I still have a wip about git-branch on pu..

-- 
Duy