From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:11:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout -d: explicitly detach HEAD even when switching to the tip of a branch
Message-ID: <euk8ps$vu1$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6r879zp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> You cannot currently checkout the tip of an existing branch
> without moving to the branch.
> 
> This allows you to detach your HEAD and place it at such a
> commit, with:
> 
>     $ git checkout -d master

What about

      $ git checkout master^0

trick to force detaching?

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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