From: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout: Don't crash when switching away from an invalid branch.
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:07:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k5bea5uq.fsf@wine.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vbpwrf85x.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:06:18 -0800")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> For that matter, dying without removing the trace of that funny state
> might be even preferrable if you need to do postmortem to figure out why
> you got into such a funny state to begin with, but not everybody uses git
> to debug git.
It turns out to be user error, that was a tree I hadn't used in a long
time and I didn't realize it was using alternates, so HEAD was pointing
to a commit that had been rebased and garbage-collected in the source
repository.
Most other commands die with a "bad object HEAD" in that situation, and
checkout could certainly do that too, but I think it's nicer to provide
an easy way of getting out of that broken state. I'll resend an updated
patch.
--
Alexandre Julliard
julliard@winehq.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-08 10:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-07 17:02 [PATCH] checkout: Don't crash when switching away from an invalid branch Alexandre Julliard
2008-11-07 18:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-07 22:28 ` Alexandre Julliard
2008-11-07 23:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-08 10:07 ` Alexandre Julliard [this message]
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2008-11-08 12:03 Alexandre Julliard
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