From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:16:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0910151912470.20122@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vfx9k1faa.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> >     $ git checkout origin/next ;# ditto
> >     $ git symbolic-ref HEAD
> >     refs/remotes/origin/next
> 
> Ok, after reading Daniel's message to remind us that "git fetch" after
> this will get us into trouble, I agree that detaching HEAD is inevitable.

Either the fetch should be refused just like a commit would, or HEAD 
gets detached automatically in that case.  Probably the former would be 
less confusing, otherwise the user might expect to see the updated 
remote branch after the fetch and not understand that a detached HEAD 
remained on the previous remote branch state.


Nicolas