On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 09:19:44AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Csaba Henk <csaba@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > "git symbolic-ref" is a dangerous command in the sense that it can
> > change your HEAD position without updating the reflog. Is it
> > intended behaviour?
>
> Yes, it is. But you can choose to do:
>
> $ git branch side
> $ git symoblic-ref -m "move to side" HEAD refs/heads/side
> $ git log --oneline -g HEAD@{0}
> 05ddb9b HEAD@{0}: move to side
> e69de29 HEAD@{1}: commit (initial): first commit
>
> if you wanted to.
I think every caller should be using "-m" these days. I know we can't
_require_ it for historical reasons. But shouldn't symbolic-ref always
write a reflog entry? Even something like "we changed and I can't tell
you why" to cover older scripts that call symbolic-ref?
-Peff
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