From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:01:33 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Introduce receive.guardCurrentBranch Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080324012139.GV14567@genesis.frugalware.org> Hi, On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Miklos Vajna wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:43:43PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > +receive.guardCurrentBranch:: > > + If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny to update the ref that > > + HEAD points to, if HEAD is not detached. This configuration > > + variable is set when initializing a non-bare repository. > > probably i want too much, but it would be really nice if receive-pack > could just make HEAD detached. so that the user later can do a 'git > checkout -m master' to resolve possible conflicts. As I wrote earlier, you can do that with a hook. I do not want any official support for this, since I think it is an absolutely horrible idea. I think I said that earlier, too. Ciao, Dscho