Re: [FIXED PATCH] Make rebase save ORIG_HEAD if changing current branch

On Jul 7, 2008, at 7:18 AM, Theodore Tso wrote:

On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 11:28:36PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

(1) ORIG_HEAD is not strictly necessary these days, because we have
    reflogs;

True, but (and please correct me if I'm wrong) ORIG_HEAD will always
be pointing out HEAD before the user typed pretty much any git
porcelein command (which saves HEAD into ORIG_HEAD), but with reflogs,
it you have to paw through multiple HEAD@{n} to find the 'n' which
corresponds to state before executing the git plumbing command, since
multiple git plumbing commands could have updated the HEAD's reflog,
right?

This is _exactly_ why I wanted `pull --rebase` to set ORIG_HEAD.   
Reflogs are great in their own way, but having ORIG_HEAD regularly  
being available for a quick way to set it back or refer to the  
original state is just too useful.

~~ Brian