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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Detached HEAD (experimental)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:04:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070110140432.GA20868@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701091539050.3594@woody.osdl.org>

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:46:32PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I would suggest a solution:
> 
>  - git checkout will refuse to switch AWAY from a detached head unless the 
>    SHA1 of the detached head exactly matches some other branch.

What about

  git checkout HEAD~20

I agree that checking out tags will be more common, but it feels like we
are discouraging this usage by presenting spurious warning messages.

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-10 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-02  7:45 [PATCH] Detached HEAD (experimental) Junio C Hamano
2007-01-02 19:59 ` Edgar Toernig
2007-01-02 21:56 ` Carl Worth
2007-01-02 22:18   ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-03  0:34     ` Carl Worth
2007-01-06 18:58       ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-06 20:48         ` Alan Chandler
2007-01-06 22:52           ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-02 22:44   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-02 23:34     ` Carl Worth
2007-01-03  2:45       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-08 11:19       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-08 13:17         ` Jeff King
2007-01-09  0:19           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-09  0:43             ` Carl Worth
2007-01-09  1:05               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-09  1:15                 ` Carl Worth
2007-01-09  3:26                   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-09  7:07                     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-09 10:41                       ` [PATCH 0/6] Expose in_merge_bases() via merge-base Junio C Hamano
2007-01-09  8:12                   ` [PATCH] Detached HEAD (experimental) Luben Tuikov
2007-01-09 14:21             ` Jeff King
2007-01-09 21:20               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-09 21:31                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-09 21:43                   ` Carl Worth
2007-01-09 21:53                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-09 23:44                     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-10  0:26                       ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-10  0:34                         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-10  1:03                           ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-10  1:07                             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-10  1:15                           ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-01-10  1:24                             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-10  1:40                               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-10  1:54                                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-01-10  2:28                                   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-10  1:37                             ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-10  9:08                     ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-01-10  9:46                       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-10 16:30                         ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-01-11  9:45                           ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-01-10  9:40                     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-09 22:37                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-09 23:39                     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-09 23:46                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-10  0:10                       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-10  0:18                         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-10  0:54                           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-10  0:51                       ` Carl Worth
2007-01-10  8:02                       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-10  9:04                       ` Andy Parkins
2007-01-10  9:05                         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-10  9:33                         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-10 10:10                           ` Andy Parkins
2007-01-10 10:25                             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-10 16:18                             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-10 14:04                       ` Jeff King [this message]
2007-01-11  0:34                         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-11  4:31                           ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-03 10:46     ` Jeff King
2007-01-03 11:59       ` Jeff King
2007-01-02 23:22 ` [PATCH] git-branch: show detached HEAD Lars Hjemli
2007-01-03  5:18   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-03  6:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-03  7:50       ` Lars Hjemli
2007-01-03  7:52         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-03  7:05   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-03  7:37     ` Lars Hjemli

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