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Mon, 26 Oct 2026 11:07:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Harald Nordgren Cc: phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk, Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget , git@vger.kernel.org, Kristoffer Haugsbakk , "D. Ben Knoble" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] reflog: add --operations and --historical-branch In-Reply-To: (Harald Nordgren's message of "Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:00:42 +0200") References: <1bc5a05e-3d3b-4f56-8b11-2e276cef48ca@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 08:07:30 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Harald Nordgren writes: >> It would certainly be nice to avoid creating lots of entries in the >> branch reflog when cherry-picking. I'm not sure what users would make of >> us switching to a detached HEAD as some people seem to find it >> confusing; if we do decide to do that we should make sure we update "git >> status" to explain what's happening. I'm more relaxed about changing >> "git am", but like you I normally detach HEAD first so maybe I'm not the >> best person to ask about that. > > I think that the fact that all of us have our tricks to work around > things is indicative of a real problem. > > We should attack the root cause and simplify git so that even us would > prefer vanilla git. I do use and prefer vanilla Git as it was designed to work, though.