From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:24:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach "git branch" about --new-workdir
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707222023360.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707221511410.29679@iabervon.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, probably.

Anyway, I will probably run with 'master'+this patch until 1.5.3 is 
released.

Ciao,
Dscho