From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:15:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0910161311460.28491@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0910151523020.32515@iabervon.org>

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, James Pickens wrote:
>
>> How about not detaching the head at all if the user checks out any ref, and
>> reject commits if he checked out a tag or remote branch.  For example:
>>
>> $ git checkout origin/master
>> $ git status
>> # On branch origin/master
>> $ git commit ;# complain
>
> $ git checkout origin/master
> $ git fetch
> $ git checkout origin/next
> Uncommited file '...' would be overwritten.

How about:

$ git checkout origin/master
$ git fetch
Refusing to fetch, as it would update a checkedout branch
"git fetch -f" will force the update, but you will need to run "git 
reset --hard HEAD" to update your checkout to match.

?

-- 
Julian

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