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From: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Subject: Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:58:56 +0300
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> Steve Diver <squelch2@googlemail.com> writes:

[...]

> If read carefully (some may argue that it does not need a very careful
> reading to get it, though), this hints that "detached HEAD" state is a
> substitute for using a temporary branch, but it may not be strong
> enough.

For my rather fresh eye it looks more like unnamed (anonymous?) branch
than a temporary one. Doesn't detached HEAD behave exactly like a
regular HEAD but pointing to the tip of an unnamed branch?

-- Sergei.