Re: disallowing push to currently checked-out branch

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Feb 16, 2009, 08:33 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0902160322530.19665@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0902151738450.14911@asgard.lang.hm>

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, david@lang.hm wrote:

> If there is some reason for the normal push to try and update the HEAD, index,
> and workdir. instead of refusing the push, how about having it put the commits
> in the repository and then fail to change the HEAD, index, and workdir if any
> of them contain changes? (along with a warning that it's doing so).

A push cannot help but update HEAD, because HEAD is generally literally "ref: refs/heads/<current-branch>"; it doesn't store its own value, and the storage that it references is the storage that push is updating.

In fact, if you expect to be pushing to a non-bare repository, you probably want to have HEAD contain the actual commit currently checked out (instead of a reference to externally mutable storage), which you can do with "git checkout refs/heads/master".

	-Daniel
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