"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The common case is probably going to be where the argument to > `git checkout` is a fast-foward of the detached HEAD. And that's > pretty cheap to check. So we perform that check, and if we fail > that then we search through every ref to determine if the detached > HEAD is fully contained in any of those. Currently that would be > pretty slow to do with the current tools, but a small modification > of say git-merge-base (or git-describe) might make it cheap enough > to run during this slightly less common case. The needed change to merge-base is quite minimum. Let me come up with a patch... - 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