Re: Deleting remote branches with git-branch and reflog questions

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> And we might want to allow reflogs on detached HEAD someday,
> >> although I personally think it goes against what detached HEAD
> >> is -- it is of a very temporary nature.
> >
> > Didn't we agree already that reflog with detached head was simply 
> > insane?
> 
> Perhaps, perhaps not.
> 
> 	$ git checkout v2.6.14
>         $ git checkout v2.6.15
>         $ git checkout v2.6.16
> 
> Ah, which one did I check-out the last time?
> 
> 	$ git describe HEAD@{1}

And what does HEAD@{1} means if not detached?

If there is a reflog for HEAD independently of what branch HEAD is 
attached to then it could make sense.  Meaning that if you're on branch 
"master" and perform a commit, then both reflogs for "master" and "HEAD" 
are updated at the same time.  If you then checkout branch "next" then 
only the "HEAD" reflog is updated since no changes to any branch did 
occur but just HEAD changed.

Then moving around and/or committing with a detached head would just 
update the "HEAD reflog.


Nicolas