From: Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:56:22 GMT
Subject: Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?
Message-ID: <ron1-817AFC.00562230012010@news.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vhbq4xbok.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

In article <7vhbq4xbok.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>,
 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com> writes:
> 
> > It wouldn't.  Was this a trick question?  Did you mean to ask what would 
> > happen if I ran commit -a?
> 
> I didn't mean _literally_ "git commit".  Any random thing you may want to
> do when you come back to work the next day and find a checked out work
> tree.  Viewing, editing, committing, etc.

Then I really don't understand the issue.  I'd be in a situation that is 
no different from (in fact indistinguishable from) having manually 
edited my code so that it looks like an earlier checked-in version.  
What's the problem?

rg