Re: [PATCH] Detached HEAD (experimental)

> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > 
> > > In my mind that is a small price to pay for making sure the
> > > commit currently in a detached HEAD doesn't get orphaned off
> > > into never-never land.
> > 
> > By the way, would detached HEAD be reflogged, and if it would
> > (and certainly it would be nice to have, because protection or
> > not sh*t happens) how it would be implemented?
> 
> Ohhhhh.  It should reflog if .git/logs/HEAD exists, so long as
> changes to HEAD are done via update-ref and not just by echo (as
> one of Junio's versions of the feature had done).
> 
> Unfortunately .git/logs/HEAD wouldn't be created by default as its
> not under refs/heads or refs/remotes.  Though it could be made to be
> on by default, in which case it would only log changes while HEAD
> is detached.  If HEAD is attached to a branch then .git/logs/HEAD
> wouldn't be appended to (or even created), while the branch's own
> log is still appended to.