Re: Missing features in git

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

linux@horizon.com wrote:

> One thing I noticed is that with ref logs, you've just re-invented the
> CVS problem of associating history with a name.  If you want to rename
> a branch (say, from "mischacks" to something suitable for publication),
> do you rename the log or not?  It's a less virulent form, but it seems
> like the same disease.

Well, it would be nice to have command to rename branches (with its reflog)
and to rename tags (even in their packed format).

[...] 
> 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_.
 
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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