Re: [PATCH 3/3] rebase -i: write better reflog messages for start

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>> t/status-help.  Looks seriously unrelated, and I'm breaking my head
>> over it.  Any clues?
>
> Damn it!  A recent commit is responsible for this avalanche in test
> breakages: b397ea (status: show more info than "currently not on any
> branch", 2013-03-13).  It re-implements a backward version of
> grab_nth_branch_switch(): grab_1st_switch() essentially _relies_ on
> the random unintended pollution that rebase writes to the reflog to
> print a more useful (?) status :/

After "git checkout v1.3.0", it is reasonable to expect that you can
tell what you checked out and what state you are in.  If you then
made a few commits or resetted to some other commit, it is debatable
if "detached from v1.3.0" is useful or the subtle difference between
"detached at" vs "detached from" is confusing.

But what does it have to do with rebase polluting the reflog?