Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Jan 30, 2010, 05:25 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001300018040.1681@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <76718491001292111y2d15620ei8a12c081a9283a07@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Jay Soffian wrote:

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> This sounds right to me too. There's nothing wrong with having a
> detached HEAD, and nothing wrong with creating commits in that state.
> You're effectively creating an anonymous branch in the DAG and it's
> subject to garbage collection if you move away from that anonymous
> branch w/o naming it.
> 
> Pedantic note: you don't lose those commits at the next checkout. They
> are merely subject to garbage collection (and not until they age out
> of HEAD's reflog). I know you know that, just being precise. :-)

Being the actual author of the code managing the separate HEAD reflog, I do know that indeed. ;-)

Nicolas

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