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

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:52:55PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

I like James's suggestion to allow us to store refs other than refs/heads/
in HEAD to denote this state, and keep commit and reset from updating such
a ref through updating HEAD.

Didn't we already consider and reject this the first time around? For
example, this thread has a ton of stuff about how we shouldn't prevent
people from making commits on the wandering state:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/35777/focus=35835

And here's me even advocating this exact strategy (and I'm sure I didn't
think of it; it's probably discussed elsewhere, too):

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/35777/focus=35858

Not that I am not necessarily complaining, but I just hope this decision
is "with new-found knowledge we are revisiting this decision" and not
"we totally forgot about what came before".

-Peff