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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ephemeral-branches instead of detached-head?
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:39:54 -0700
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David Jeske wrote:

>                                  Ephemeral branch names would be
> local-only and would never be pushed.

That's how normal branch names behave (local branch names and remote
branch names live in different namespaces).  How would the proposed
detached HEAD replacement compare to them?  Would the temporary branch
created by checking out a random commit be automatically deleted when
checking out another branch, or would it be garbage-collected at some
point later?

Curious,
Jonathan