Re: several quick questions

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:10:28PM CET, I got a letter
where Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> said that...
> That gives a very natural name, "seek", for the operation I'd like.
> 
> How about "git seek" for doing the operations above, and using some
> reserved branch name, (say "seek"). Then, git-bisect could easily be
> built on that, and git-commit could respect the "seek" name and refuse
> to commit to it, (could tell the user how to create the branch
> necessary to commit from the current point).
> 
> There could also be a "git seek reset" to return to the HEAD saved by
> the first in a chain of "git seek" operations.
> 
> That looks like I minor generalization of existing behavior in
> git-bisect, but it would provide an operation that I would find
> useful.

Well, this is exactly what cg-seek does (and it's one of pretty old
Cogito commands) - it even has the same name. ;-) See my other mail in
this thread.

It works by creating a new branch cg-seek-point and storing the seeked
point there; if HEAD is already on the branch, it merely changes the
seek point and resets the working tree appropriately. cg-seek without
any arguments will then return to your original head, whose name was
stored in .git/head-name.

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