From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:33:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0910141233060.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20091014050851.GE31810@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Jeff King wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:44:34AM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> 
> > +char *get_detached_head_string(void)
> > +{
> > +	char *filename = git_path("DETACH_NAME");
> > +	struct stat st;
> > +	if (stat(filename, &st) || !S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
> > +		return NULL;
> > +	struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
> > +	strbuf_read_file(&buf, filename, st.st_size);
> > +	strbuf_trim(&buf);
> > +	return strbuf_detach(&buf, 0);
> > +}
> 
> Would it hurt to tuck this information into HEAD itself, as we already
> put arbitrary text into FETCH_HEAD?

AFAIR we still remember HEAD to be a symlink.

Ciao,
Dscho