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From: Matt Draisey <matt@draisey.ca>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Detached checkout will clobber branch head when using symlink HEAD
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:11:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1224187863.2796.15.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081016191751.GB14707@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 15:17 -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> Hmm. I don't think we have shipped with a symlink HEAD for quite a long
> time. Using one obviously doesn't work with detached HEAD, but also
> would fail with packed refs. I don't know if we ever deprecated it.

I am using the following system defaults:

core.prefersymlinkrefs=true
gc.packrefs=false

so almost all my git repositories are still using a symlink HEAD.
I have some old scripts That I use occasionally and still depend on it.
Using detached checkout is the only problem I've had.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-16 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-15 18:24 Detached checkout will clobber branch head when using symlink HEAD Matt Draisey
2008-10-16 19:17 ` Jeff King
2008-10-16 20:11   ` Matt Draisey [this message]
2008-10-16 20:20     ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-16 20:22       ` Jeff King
2008-10-16 20:30         ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-16 20:28       ` Matt Draisey
2008-10-16 20:47         ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-16 20:39     ` Jeff King
2008-10-17 23:08       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-17 23:10         ` [PATCH 1/3] demonstrate breakage of detached checkout with symbolic link HEAD Junio C Hamano
2008-10-17 23:10         ` [PATCH 2/3] Enhance hold_lock_file_for_{update,append}() API Junio C Hamano
2008-10-17 23:11         ` [PATCH 3/3] Fix checkout not to clobber the branch when using symlinked HEAD upon detaching Junio C Hamano
2008-10-19 13:00         ` Detached checkout will clobber branch head when using symlink HEAD Jeff King
2008-10-19 19:36           ` Junio C Hamano

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