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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: Detached checkout will clobber branch head when using symlink
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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:22:02 -0400
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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