Re: [PATCH] Proof-of-concept patch to remember what the detached HEAD was

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:34:44AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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AFAIR we still remember HEAD to be a symlink.

I think that has been abandoned for detached HEAD (that is, if you
support only symlinked HEAD, then you cannot detach at all). But I might
be wrong. It has been a while since I looked at that code.

If I understand what Daniel is doing correctly, the idea is to keep this
extra information only while the HEAD is detached, no?  "HEAD itself
could be a symlink" is an irrelevant issue, isn't it?

Right. That is what I was trying to say, but somehow it didn't come out
very clearly.

-Peff