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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Cc: James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>,
	Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD  was
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:34:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v3a5k4cri.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0910151523020.32515@iabervon.org> (Daniel Barkalow's message of "Thu\, 15 Oct 2009 15\:31\:13 -0400 \(EDT\)")

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

>  $ git checkout origin/master
>  $ git fetch
>  $ git checkout origin/next
>  Uncommited file '...' would be overwritten.
>
> If HEAD is a symref to refs/remotes/origin/master, and you update 
> refs/remotes/origin/master, git will subsequently see that your index 
> doesn't match HEAD, and when you switch branches, it will try to apply a 
> revert to the branch you're switching to. It's the same issue as pushing 
> into a non-bare repository.

I think the idea here is to allow HEAD to point at outside refs/heads/,
e.g. refs/remotes/origin/master, but forbid commit and other commands from
updating HEAD and its underlying ref via update_ref() unless HEAD is
detached or points at a local branch.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-15 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-14  4:44 [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was Daniel Barkalow
2009-10-14  5:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-14  5:08 ` Jeff King
2009-10-14 10:33   ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-10-14 15:39     ` Jeff King
2009-10-14 18:34       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-14 18:40         ` Jeff King
2009-10-14 15:56   ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-10-14 18:56 ` Jay Soffian
2009-10-14 19:15   ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-10-14 20:18     ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-10-14 20:37       ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-10-14 20:42       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-14 20:48         ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-10-14 22:34           ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-14 23:09             ` Jeff King
2009-10-14 23:34               ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-10-15  0:56                 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-15  1:47                   ` Jeff King
2009-10-15  3:08                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-10-15  4:21                       ` Jeff King
2009-10-16  1:04                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-10-16  1:36                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-10-16  2:07                           ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-10-16  2:45                             ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-10-16  2:56                             ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-17  7:24                             ` Sean Estabrooks
2009-10-26 22:22                               ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-10-27  3:41                                 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-10-27 10:33                                   ` Making Git easy to use -- without RTFM, was " Johannes Schindelin
2009-10-27 17:58                                     ` Avery Pennarun
2009-10-16  0:53                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-10-16  3:00                     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-15  7:36               ` James Pickens
2009-10-15 12:54                 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-10-15 14:11                   ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-10-15 19:03                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-10-15 15:36                 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-10-15 16:29                   ` Michael J Gruber
2009-10-15 19:07                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-10-15 19:22                     ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-10-15 22:56                       ` Thomas Rast
2009-10-15 18:51                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-10-15 19:52                   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-15 21:26                     ` Jeff King
2009-10-15 21:54                       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-15 22:08                         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-15 23:16                           ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-10-15 23:47                           ` James Pickens
2009-10-16  0:34                             ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-10-16  0:43                             ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-10-16  5:03                             ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-10-15 22:16                         ` Jeff King
2009-10-15 22:17                           ` Jeff King
2009-10-16  4:29                         ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-10-16  6:02                           ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-10-16  8:27                             ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-10-16 15:44                             ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-10-15 19:31                 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-10-15 20:34                   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-10-15 21:35                     ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-10-15 21:48                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-10-16 12:15                   ` Julian Phillips
2009-10-16 14:30                     ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-10-16 17:31                       ` Julian Phillips
2009-10-16 18:29                         ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-10-16 19:05                         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-16 19:48                           ` Julian Phillips
2009-10-16 20:19                             ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-10-17 15:15                               ` Julian Phillips
2009-10-17 17:04                                 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-10-17 17:35                                   ` Julian Phillips
2009-10-17 17:48                                     ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-10-17 22:28                                       ` Julian Phillips
2009-10-16 20:19                             ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-17 15:32                               ` Julian Phillips
2009-10-17 17:43                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-17 22:19                                   ` Julian Phillips
2009-10-17  7:55                         ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-10-17  8:11                           ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-17  8:40                             ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-10-17  9:04                               ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-17 17:07                                 ` James Pickens
2009-10-17 19:41                                 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-10-18 22:47                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-19  8:44                                     ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-10-17 15:02                           ` Julian Phillips
2009-10-14 23:52         ` Eric Raible
2009-10-16 22:36 ` Christoph Bartoschek
2009-10-17  7:43   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-17  8:19     ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-10-17 17:42       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-17 20:35     ` Daniel Barkalow

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