Junio C Hamano wrote: > Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Special casing the 'current' branch makes any sort of automated push >> setup unreliable. Indeed the special case preventing a fetch into the >> current branch is pretty annoying for the same reason. I would almost >> prefer to relax that than add the same for push. > > How would you relax the fetch case? Fetching into the current > branch, unless the repository is bare, is always a fishy > operation. Is it fishy if the working directory and index match HEAD? If not, then we could detect that and allow update in that case? Also, if we had dangling head support we could "leave" HEAD pointing to the starting commit, and emit a nice fat warning. -apw - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html