Re: [PATCH] checkout: honor advice.detachedHead when reattaching to a branch

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 03:59:20PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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I tend to think (3) is now just useless.

Quite the contrary. If you do not want to pay the price of (4) that is
useless most of the time, (3) is a cheap, space efficient and useful
information that is essential to allow you to get rid of (4) without
having to look at reflog.

Sorry, I should have been more clear. If you turn off orphan-checking,
(3) is just as useful as it always was. But _if_ you have
orphan-checking turned on, and it comes up negative, showing (3) is not
particularly useful. You already know you are not losing commits.

-Peff