From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/3] bisect: use a detached HEAD to bisect
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 20:51:17 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18487.62245.59892.442935@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805230823330.3081@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds writes:
> This is a general problem in gitk.
>
> It's worse than not showing a label, btw. If it doesn't realize what the
> HEAD is (and it won't), it also doesn't show the fake "uncommitted
> changes" commit(s).
I could make it show "HEAD" in a green box for a detached head easily
enough. That could be ambiguous if you had a branch called HEAD, I
suppose, but having a branch called HEAD would be deeply confusing
anyway. :) Do you have any alternative suggestion for how to display
a detached head?
Paul.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-24 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-22 23:28 [PATCH 4/3] bisect: use a detached HEAD to bisect Christian Couder
2008-05-23 5:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-23 7:08 ` Christian Couder
2008-05-23 15:14 ` Jon Loeliger
2008-05-23 15:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-24 10:51 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2008-05-24 16:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-25 0:37 ` Jeff King
2008-05-26 0:15 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-05-26 1:11 ` Junio C Hamano
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