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

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, James Pickens wrote:

quoted

How about not detaching the head at all if the user checks out any ref, and
reject commits if he checked out a tag or remote branch.  For example:

$ git checkout origin/master
$ git status
# On branch origin/master
$ git commit ;# complain

$ git checkout origin/master
$ git fetch
$ git checkout origin/next
Uncommited file '...' would be overwritten.

How about:

$ git checkout origin/master
$ git fetch
Refusing to fetch, as it would update a checkedout branch
"git fetch -f" will force the update, but you will need to run "git 
reset --hard HEAD" to update your checkout to match.

?

-- 
Julian

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