From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:47:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Detached checkout will clobber branch head when using symlink HEAD
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810161646550.26244@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <1224188939.2796.22.camel@localhost>

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Matt Draisey wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 16:20 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > A symlink HEAD and detached checkouts are simply incompatible.
> 
> Not necessarily.  The symlinking code will unlink the original inode
> each time it creates a new symlink anyway.  It is simply a matter of
> creating a new file in its place.

True.  I didn't think it all through initially.


Nicolas