From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>,
Salikh Zakirov <salikh@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Introduce .git/BRANCH to point to the current branch
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:46:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vir3e428i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34peyur8r.fsf@roke.D-201> (Jakub Narebski's message of "Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:42:43 -0800 (PST)")
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
>> Currently, I can do:
>>
>> # Oh, what did this look like two commits ago?
>> $ git checkout HEAD^^
>> # Ah, OK, let's go back to the tip
>> $ git checkout branch-name
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>> But I have to remember and re-type the branch name.
>
> No, you don't have. You can use
> $ git checkout ORIG_HEAD
> or
> $ git checkout HEAD@{1}
But the point is he wants to go back to the branch he came from. He
does not want to detach HEAD at the original commit.
Having said that, I am not sympathetic to "I have to remember".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-04 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-04 20:08 [RFC] Introduce .git/BRANCH to point to the current branch Salikh Zakirov
2007-12-04 20:19 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-12-04 20:42 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-04 20:46 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-12-04 21:32 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-12-04 21:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-04 22:04 ` [PATCH] git-checkout --push/--pop Nanako Shiraishi
2007-12-05 6:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-05 10:26 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-12-05 17:44 ` David Kågedal
2007-12-06 23:39 ` [RFC] Introduce .git/BRANCH to point to the current branch Robin Rosenberg
2007-12-04 21:57 ` Salikh Zakirov
2007-12-04 22:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-04 22:08 ` Jakub Narebski
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