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From: Sergio Callegari <sergio.callegari@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: disallowing push to currently checked-out branch
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:17:01 +0000 (UTC)
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Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes:

> 
> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow <at> iabervon.org> writes:
> 
> > In fact, if you expect to be pushing to a non-bare repository, you
> > probably want to have HEAD contain the actual commit currently checked
> > out (instead of a reference to externally mutable storage), which you
> > can do with "git checkout refs/heads/master".
> 
> "git checkout master^0" is shorter 
> 
> For people who do not follow the git list regularly, a "HEAD contain the
> actual commit" is often called "detached".
> 


Could you have that done automatically?
Namely rather to denying push to a branch b where HEAD->b, when you get such
push you detach head?