From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: [PATCH] detached HEAD -- finishing touches Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 20:16:09 -0500 Message-ID: <20070202011608.GA18880@thunk.org> References: <20070131231942.GB31145@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20070201030030.GA1979@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vd54ur26u.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vlkjip7mu.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20070201215242.GA1775@thunk.org> <7v64alnz2q.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff King , Nicolas Pitre , cworth@cworth.org, git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 02 02:16:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HCn2K-0000CN-Cd for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:16:20 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423057AbXBBBQR (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 20:16:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423053AbXBBBQR (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 20:16:17 -0500 Received: from THUNK.ORG ([69.25.196.29]:37769 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423057AbXBBBQR (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 20:16:17 -0500 Received: from root (helo=candygram.thunk.org) by thunker.thunk.org with local-esmtps (tls_cipher TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1HCn78-00023e-Lk; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:21:18 -0500 Received: from tytso by candygram.thunk.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HCn29-0007Jt-IW; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:16:09 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7v64alnz2q.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:11:09PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Didn't I already point out that you can have a precious > information while on the detached HEAD without making any > commit, and that is the reason why we do not use the > reachability crud from refs when deciding to issue the message? Sorry, I must be dense. Exactly what precious information can be ever be lost in the following sequence: git checkout HEAD~1 git checkout master such that it want to train users to be typing git checkout -f master instead? - Ted