From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Matt Draisey <matt@draisey.ca>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Detached checkout will clobber branch head when using symlink HEAD
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:22:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081016202202.GA9487@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810161619330.26244@xanadu.home>
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:20:32PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > so almost all my git repositories are still using a symlink HEAD.
> > I have some old scripts That I use occasionally and still depend on it.
> > Using detached checkout is the only problem I've had.
>
> A symlink HEAD and detached checkouts are simply incompatible.
Agreed, but I think the complaint is not that it doesn't work, but that
it silently clobbers the current branch when you try it.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-16 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-15 18:24 Detached checkout will clobber branch head when using symlink HEAD Matt Draisey
2008-10-16 19:17 ` Jeff King
2008-10-16 20:11 ` Matt Draisey
2008-10-16 20:20 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-16 20:22 ` Jeff King [this message]
2008-10-16 20:30 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-16 20:28 ` Matt Draisey
2008-10-16 20:47 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-16 20:39 ` Jeff King
2008-10-17 23:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-17 23:10 ` [PATCH 1/3] demonstrate breakage of detached checkout with symbolic link HEAD Junio C Hamano
2008-10-17 23:10 ` [PATCH 2/3] Enhance hold_lock_file_for_{update,append}() API Junio C Hamano
2008-10-17 23:11 ` [PATCH 3/3] Fix checkout not to clobber the branch when using symlinked HEAD upon detaching Junio C Hamano
2008-10-19 13:00 ` Detached checkout will clobber branch head when using symlink HEAD Jeff King
2008-10-19 19:36 ` Junio C Hamano
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