Dear diary, on Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 11:07:43AM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that...
> If you block certain operations while you have seeked to non-top
> anyway, wouldn't it be cleaner to have .git/seeked-to that
> records the commit ID you are at, which at the same time
> indicates that you are in a special situation, and not touching
> HEAD at all? Then .git/HEAD will always have that line of
> development information.
>
> Well, that was half tongue-in-cheek suggestion; I have a feeling
> that you may feel it is a bit too late to change this kind of
> thing easily.
The thing is, _everything_ assumes .git/HEAD is the current commit
checked out in the index. All the Cogito (that wouldn't be hard to
change at all), all the other Porcelains, the core GIT tools. So
changing that would be difficult and it's much easier this way.
> But if we are going to agree on using .git/head-name, I'd rather
> see it exist all times, so that cat "$GIT_DIR/head-name" would
> always tell us which branch we are working in.
After some thought, I like Linus' approach more now, having head-name
only when it's really necessary.
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching
someone. -- Alan Cox
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