Re: [PATCH] revision walker: include a detached HEAD in --all

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Santi Béjar wrote:

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2009/1/16 Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref]:

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Note that this affects creating bundles with --all; I contend that it 
is a good change to add the HEAD, so that cloning from such a bundle 
will give you a current branch.  However, I had to fix t5701 as it 
assumed that --all does not imply HEAD.

From the description I understand that it only affects when the HEAD is 
detached, but in t5701 the HEAD is not detached so nothing should be 
fixed.

The error in t5701 was that it _wanted_ to test a bundle without a HEAD, 
but it actually created it with --all.  That was implying that --all does 
not mean HEAD, and I disagree with that.

I don't think that a detached HEAD should be a special case, since you
can have other detached symbolic references no longer on a branch.  None
of those should be garbage-collected either, I think.

-- 
David Kastrup