On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:33:22PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > +char *get_detached_head_string(void)
> > > +{
> > > + char *filename = git_path("DETACH_NAME");
> > > + struct stat st;
> > > + if (stat(filename, &st) || !S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
> > > + return NULL;
> > > + struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
> > > + strbuf_read_file(&buf, filename, st.st_size);
> > > + strbuf_trim(&buf);
> > > + return strbuf_detach(&buf, 0);
> > > +}
> >
> > Would it hurt to tuck this information into HEAD itself, as we already
> > put arbitrary text into FETCH_HEAD?
>
> 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.
-Peff
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