From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Sean Hunt <seandhunt_7@icloud.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Where is git checkout --orphan implemented at.
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 17:09:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180611210938.GA26235@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa7s1cjkj.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:35:40AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
> > If you don't even have symbolic-ref handy, you can do:
> >
> > echo "ref: refs/heads/new-branch" >.git/HEAD
> >
> > That's not generally recommended, since future versions of Git may
> > change the ref storage format, but it would work with any current
> > version of Git.
>
> Makes one wonder if it really "works" if .git/HEAD was created by
> older version of Git or in a repository where prefer-symlink-refs is
> enabled, though ;-)
Heh, true. I guess "rm -f .git/HEAD" before would "fix" it.
-Peff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-11 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-05 16:02 Where is git checkout --orphan implemented at Sean Hunt
2018-06-05 17:54 ` Jeff King
2018-06-11 17:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-06-11 21:09 ` Jeff King [this message]
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