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From: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <code@khaugsbakk.name>
To: "Stefan Haller" <lists@haller-berlin.de>
Cc: "Derrick Stolee" <derrickstolee@github.com>,
	"Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>,
	"Phillip Wood" <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>,
	"Christian Couder" <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Should --update-refs exclude refs pointing to the current HEAD?
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 08:59:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25aa1b8d-79f6-4b33-be22-735a867367c0@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <354f9fed-567f-42c8-9da9-148a5e223022@haller-berlin.de>

On Tue, Mar 5, 2024, at 08:40, Stefan Haller wrote:
> Coming back to this after almost a year, I can say that I'm still
> running into this problem relatively frequently, and it is annoying
> every single time. Excluding refs pointing at the current head from
> being updated, as proposed above, would be a big usability improvement
> for me.

Sounds like a ref-stash command is in order…

    # I want a new branch
    git checkout -b new
    # But I don’t want it to be affected by the next rebase
    git ref-stash push
    git rebase [...]
    # Now I’m done: put the ref back where it was
    git ref-stash pop

-- 
Kristoffer Haugsbakk

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-03-07  7:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-17  8:21 Should --update-refs exclude refs pointing to the current HEAD? Stefan Haller
2023-04-17  8:30 ` Stefan Haller
2023-04-17  8:34 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-04-17  9:22   ` Stefan Haller
2023-04-18  2:00     ` Felipe Contreras
2023-04-17 12:14 ` Phillip Wood
2023-04-20 15:27   ` Stefan Haller
2024-03-05  7:40 ` Stefan Haller
2024-03-05 16:22   ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-06  2:57     ` Elijah Newren
2024-03-06 21:00       ` Stefan Haller
2024-03-07  5:36         ` Elijah Newren
2024-03-07 20:16           ` Stefan Haller
2024-03-09  3:28             ` Elijah Newren
2024-03-12  9:28               ` Stefan Haller
2024-03-07  7:59   ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk [this message]
2024-03-07  8:22     ` Elijah Newren
2024-03-24 10:42 ` Stefan Haller

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