From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: [PATCH] git checkout's reflog: even when detaching the HEAD, say from where Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 02:42:27 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 07 03:43:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IIE6M-0001fi-Bj for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 03:43:14 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763624AbXHGBnJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:43:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763046AbXHGBnI (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:43:08 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:53730 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1762611AbXHGBnH (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:43:07 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 Aug 2007 01:43:04 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO openvpn-client) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp021) with SMTP; 07 Aug 2007 03:43:04 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/mTzIAJ0rmS5p1cdSUJ0t507JUFN57w4W04VMhvX Xp7xXfdG3WrxxJ X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: When checking out another ref, the reflogs already record from which branch you switched. Do that also when switching to a detached HEAD. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- git-checkout.sh | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-checkout.sh b/git-checkout.sh index 17f4392..f427718 100755 --- a/git-checkout.sh +++ b/git-checkout.sh @@ -272,7 +272,8 @@ if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then fi elif test -n "$detached" then - git update-ref --no-deref -m "checkout: moving to $arg" HEAD "$detached" || + old_branch_name=`expr "z$oldbranch" : 'zrefs/heads/\(.*\)'` + git update-ref --no-deref -m "checkout: moving from $old_branch_name to $arg" HEAD "$detached" || die "Cannot detach HEAD" if test -n "$detach_warn" then -- 1.5.3.rc4.17.gb980