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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>,
	cworth@cworth.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] detached HEAD -- finishing touches
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 20:16:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070202011608.GA18880@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v64alnz2q.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:11:09PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Didn't I already point out that you can have a precious
> information while on the detached HEAD without making any
> commit, and that is the reason why we do not use the
> reachability crud from refs when deciding to issue the message?

Sorry, I must be dense.  Exactly what precious information can be ever
be lost in the following sequence:

git checkout HEAD~1
git checkout master

such that it want to train users to be typing

git checkout -f master

instead?

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-02  1:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-31 19:10 [PATCH] tone down the detached head warning Nicolas Pitre
2007-01-31 23:19 ` Jeff King
2007-01-31 23:25   ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-31 23:27     ` Jeff King
2007-01-31 23:33       ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-31 23:54   ` Carl Worth
2007-02-01  0:14     ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-01  8:44       ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-01 12:48         ` Matthias Lederhofer
2007-02-01  0:11   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-01  3:00     ` Jeff King
2007-02-01  3:23       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-01  3:29         ` Jeff King
2007-02-01  3:47           ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-01  3:54             ` Jeff King
2007-02-01  9:08         ` [PATCH] detached HEAD -- finishing touches Junio C Hamano
2007-02-01  9:46           ` Raimund Bauer
2007-02-01  9:53           ` Alex Riesen
2007-02-01  9:54             ` Alex Riesen
2007-02-01 18:44           ` [PATCH] git-checkout: disable guides how to switch branches with ui.guide Matthias Lederhofer
2007-02-01 20:42             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-01 20:51               ` Matthias Lederhofer
2007-02-01 21:06                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-01 21:23                   ` Matthias Lederhofer
2007-02-01 21:34                   ` Carl Worth
2007-02-01 21:59                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-01 22:16                       ` Carl Worth
2007-02-01 23:18                         ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-01 21:52           ` [PATCH] detached HEAD -- finishing touches Theodore Tso
2007-02-02  1:11             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-02  1:16               ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2007-02-02  1:27               ` Carl Worth
2007-02-02  1:30                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-02  1:46                   ` Carl Worth
2007-02-02  2:38                     ` Junio C Hamano

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