Re: Reverting the whole index-base series

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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But no, I wasn't following that series, so I probably totally 
misunderstood what you were going after..

Could be.

The issue in short was about:

	$ git checkout $branch

At this point you think your HEAD is at $branch head, and you
are working towards building a commit that has that commit as
one of the parents.

Then a gremlin updates the commit HEAD points at.

Ahh, ok. I was kind of expecting that you'd actually do something at 
"receive-pack" time instead, not at the next commit. That would also solve 
it - just have an option saying "update the working tree when receiving". 

I specifically did not want to do that, as it would break
existing workflow of pushing into a live repository, knowing the
branch might be checked out at the remote.

Also, the case of multiple working trees sharing the same refs/
namespace cannot be solved by trapping receive-pack alone.