From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Verdoolaege Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-update-ref: add --no-deref option for overwriting/detaching ref Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 14:53:06 +0200 Message-ID: <20070509125306.GV942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> References: <20070509103320.GA7257MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> <20070509123914.GO4489@pasky.or.cz> Reply-To: skimo@liacs.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Petr Baudis X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 09 14:53:40 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 1Hllfn-0005Q0-EJ for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 14:53:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755836AbXEIMxK (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 08:53:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756574AbXEIMxK (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 08:53:10 -0400 Received: from psmtp13.wxs.nl ([195.121.247.25]:47347 "EHLO psmtp13.wxs.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756091AbXEIMxI (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 08:53:08 -0400 Received: from greensroom.kotnet.org (ip54515aaa.direct-adsl.nl [84.81.90.170]) by psmtp13.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.15 (built Nov 14 2006)) with SMTP id <0JHR00IYSYGI2G@psmtp13.wxs.nl> for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 14:53:07 +0200 (MEST) Received: (qmail 25814 invoked by uid 500); Wed, 09 May 2007 12:53:06 +0000 In-reply-to: <20070509123914.GO4489@pasky.or.cz> Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 02:39:14PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:33:20PM CEST, Sven Verdoolaege wrote: > > git-checkout is also adapted to make use of this new option > > instead of the handcrafted command sequence. > > > > Signed-off-by: Sven Verdoolaege > > Isn't this what git-symbolic-ref is about? You certainly can't use git-symbolic-ref now to overwrite a symbolic ref by a non-symbolic ref. It allows you to do the equivalent of symlink/readlink, while we want to _remove_ the link here. skimo