Re: [RFC] Introduce .git/BRANCH to point to the current branch

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Dec 4, 2007, 20:19 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqbq96jjrf.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <4755B3B3.80704@gmail.com>

Salikh Zakirov <salikh@gmail.com> writes:

> This combination leads to the confusing user experience
> if the branch changes independently of the working directory.
> This can happen in following cases:

There's another thing that your proposal could change: navigating back in history without loosing track of the branch you're on.

Currently, I can do:

# Oh, what did this look like two commits ago?
$ git checkout HEAD^^
# Ah, OK, let's go back to the tip
$ git checkout branch-name
               ^^^^^^^^^^^
But I have to remember and re-type the branch name.

I can imagine (not tested with your patch) doing just:

$ git checkout HEAD^^ $ git checkout BRANCH

(that's one point in favor of your change, but I'm not familiar enough with git's internal to say whether this is sufficient to justify the change).

-- 
Matthieu