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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Instructions concerning detached head lead to lost local changes
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:44:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vps8thulj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702020206480.3021@xanadu.home> (Nicolas Pitre's message of "Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:14:07 -0500 (EST)")

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> It's just that moving around amongst thousands of commits to pin point a 
> particular commit might require some digging work.  This is why there 
> might be some value in a particular position and why there is an attempt 
> at protecting that "work".
>
> But since moving to another position while still remaining detached from 
> any branch has the same potential for losing the important position and 
> so without any kind of protection then it makes no sense to have such a 
> protection when moving back to a branch.

Thanks -- I'd agree.

Also I agree that "reflog on HEAD" is the right direction as it
makes these 'protection' unnecessary.  I've applied all your
patches from today on the topic, along with Johannes's "log -g
@{now}".

      reply	other threads:[~2007-02-02  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-01 22:51 Instructions concerning detached head lead to lost local changes Carl Worth
2007-02-01 23:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-02  1:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-02  2:00   ` Carl Worth
2007-02-02  2:06   ` Carl Worth
2007-02-02  2:49   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-02  6:59     ` Theodore Tso
2007-02-02  7:14       ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-02  7:44         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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