Re: Detached checkout will clobber branch head when using symlink HEAD

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Oct 16, 2008, 20:20 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810161619330.26244@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <1224187863.2796.15.camel@localhost>

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Matt Draisey wrote:

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> On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 15:17 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > Hmm. I don't think we have shipped with a symlink HEAD for quite a long
> > time. Using one obviously doesn't work with detached HEAD, but also
> > would fail with packed refs. I don't know if we ever deprecated it.
> 
> I am using the following system defaults:
> 
> core.prefersymlinkrefs=true
> gc.packrefs=false
> 
> so almost all my git repositories are still using a symlink HEAD.
> I have some old scripts That I use occasionally and still depend on it.
> Using detached checkout is the only problem I've had.

A symlink HEAD and detached checkouts are simply incompatible.

Nicolas