Re: Reverting the whole index-base series

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Apr 15, 2007, 23:33 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704151632140.5473@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vfy712uva.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> >
> > But no, I wasn't following that series, so I probably totally 
> > misunderstood what you were going after..
> 
> Could be.
> 
> The issue in short was about:
> 
> 	$ git checkout $branch
> 
> At this point you think your HEAD is at $branch head, and you
> are working towards building a commit that has that commit as
> one of the parents.
> 
> Then a gremlin updates the commit HEAD points at.

Ahh, ok. I was kind of expecting that you'd actually do something at "receive-pack" time instead, not at the next commit. That would also solve it - just have an option saying "update the working tree when receiving".

And since I thought that was what you were aiming at, I didn't see why you wanted to hide the previous commit in the index..

All clear now. My confusion.

		Linus