Re: Missing features in git

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Karl Hasselström wrote:
> On 2006-11-14 15:53:18 +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
>> linux@horizon.com wrote:
>>
>>> Then you could check out an arbitrary version without any of the
>>> annoyance above; I could "git checkout tags/foo" or even "git
>>> checkout deadbeef~3". I wouldn't be on a current branch (which
>>> would necessitate changing "git branch" output), so HEAD would
>>> simply contain an object ID directly rather than being a
>>> symlink/symref.
>>
>> And what would happen if you want to checkout other branch? Where
>> the ID in the HEAD would go to? HEAD just _has_ to be reference to
>> _branch_.
> 
> The id that used to be HEAD would not be saved anywhere. It would
> still be reachable from your refs, presumably, just like before you
> checked it out. (It would not be the case that you had made commits on
> an unnamed branch that would now get lost, because the tool would
> refuse to commit until you had created a name for the branch.)

If HEAD would contain an commit ID directly, then you shouldn't be able
to commit at all. Not very useful, it is.
-- 
Jakub Narebski