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Re: [PATCH] New git-seek command with documentation and test.

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Feb 24, 2006, 00:54 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0602240152490.32472@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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<20060224002915.17331.qmail@science.horizon.com>
Hi,
On Fri, 23 Feb 2006, linux@horizon.com wrote:
> This is somewhat heretical, but how about making a truly unnamed branch by
> having .git/HEAD *not* be a symlink, but rather hold a commit ID directly?

Not heretical. How do you intend to switch branches now? And how do you intend to record the starting point of git-seek to which you want to return to? All leads back to .git/HEAD pointing to a branch (or whatever you want to call it). And BTW, .git/HEAD is no symlink these days, but a symref.

Hth, Dscho

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