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

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Oct 16, 2008, 20:30 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810161629550.26244@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20081016202202.GA9487@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:20:32PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> Agreed, but I think the complaint is not that it doesn't work, but that
> it silently clobbers the current branch when you try it.

That is unacceptable indeed.

Nicolas