From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:42:27 GMT Subject: [PATCH] git checkout's reflog: even when detaching the HEAD, say from where Message-ID: When checking out another ref, the reflogs already record from which branch you switched. Do that also when switching to a detached HEAD. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- git-checkout.sh | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-checkout.sh b/git-checkout.sh index 17f4392..f427718 100755 --- a/git-checkout.sh +++ b/git-checkout.sh @@ -272,7 +272,8 @@ if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then fi elif test -n "$detached" then - git update-ref --no-deref -m "checkout: moving to $arg" HEAD "$detached" || + old_branch_name=`expr "z$oldbranch" : 'zrefs/heads/\(.*\)'` + git update-ref --no-deref -m "checkout: moving from $old_branch_name to $arg" HEAD "$detached" || die "Cannot detach HEAD" if test -n "$detach_warn" then -- 1.5.3.rc4.17.gb980