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Subject: Re: [RFC] Detached-HEAD reminder on commit?
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Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:

> It seems to have been suggested (in various forms) by several people and 
> generally well-received in the original thread, but nothing seems to have 
> come of it (at least nothing that has survived till today).

You are masochistic enough to have noticed that people were talking about
the safety in the context of "HEAD lacks its own reflog"?  Yes, we had
reflogs on each refs/*, but HEAD itself did not have one.

The situation has changed --- HEAD has its own reflog these days, which
not only helps this particular issue but is useful in contexts that never
involves a detached HEAD.