From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 15:55:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] merge: allow to pretend a merge into detached HEAD is made into a branch
Message-ID: <xmqq35mnz2x6.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <87a6gyiamm.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:

> ...
> consider to introduce something like "--into-name=<name>" instead, that
> will do this renaming unconditionally.

Excellent.

In the scenario I illustrated in the proposed log message, I used a
throw-away temporary working area to prepare the history for a real
branch, and detached HEAD is the perfect match for such a temporary
working area.  But it should not be a crime to use a real temporary
branch for such use case.

Thanks.