From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Record original ref in detached HEAD Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:37:39 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1361888897-1821-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: =?utf-8?B?Tmd1eeG7hW4gVGjDoWkgTmfhu41j?= Duy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 26 15:38:12 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UALfX-0003qB-KU for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:38:11 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759186Ab3BZOho convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:37:44 -0500 Received: from mx1.imag.fr ([129.88.30.5]:46567 "EHLO shiva.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758293Ab3BZOhn (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:37:43 -0500 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by shiva.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r1QEbclR007609 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:37:38 +0100 Received: from anie.imag.fr ([129.88.7.32] helo=anie) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UALf1-0001gF-Kq; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:37:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1361888897-1821-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> (=?utf-8?B?Ik5ndXnhu4VuCVRow6FpIE5n4buNYw==?= Duy"'s message of "Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:28:17 +0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (shiva.imag.fr [129.88.30.5]); Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:37:38 +0100 (CET) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: r1QEbclR007609 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1362494259.21605@6NcnvSJGqM4kXysCc2Hklg Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nguy=E1=BB=85n Th=C3=A1i Ng=E1=BB=8Dc Duy writes: > Many times I checkout a remote branch, or a tag and after a while I > forget remember what ref I checked it out from. Saving the original > ref would help (or is it already saved somewhere?). It is :-). Try e.g. git checkout --detach git checkout - (analogous to "cd -": return back to where you were before) --=20 Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/