From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:16:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach "git branch" about --new-workdir
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707221511410.29679@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707221956210.14781@racer.site>

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> A word of warning: switching to _same_ branch that is checked out in
> the other repository is asking for trouble.  You are really working not
> only on the same object database, but also the same (i.e. not copied)
> refs namespace.

It's probably time to revive Junio's patch for keeping the 
fully-dereferenced value of HEAD in the index, to make this safer.

	-Daniel
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