Re: About detached heads

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Mar 14, 2008, 15:19 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803141117040.2947@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <b77c1dce0803140753w21515021u4541796d6e6934b@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:

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> On 14/03/2008, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> >   This way you would get exactly:
> >
> >     1---2---3---4---5---3'   <--- master <--- HEAD
> >
> >
> >  While the 3' commit has the same contents as 3, it is a new, distinct
> >   commit with its own history.  Its commit message should explain why
> >   you want to go from 5 back to the contents of 3.
> 
> Just a small question -- does that mean that 3 and 3' share the same
> tree object ?

Yes. However, they don't share the same parent in the commit object, so even if the commit text was the same and the time stamps were forced to be the same, the commit 3' won't have the same SHA1.

Nicolas