On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:20:32PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > so almost all my git repositories are still using a symlink HEAD. > > I have some old scripts That I use occasionally and still depend on it. > > Using detached checkout is the only problem I've had. > > A symlink HEAD and detached checkouts are simply incompatible. Agreed, but I think the complaint is not that it doesn't work, but that it silently clobbers the current branch when you try it. -Peff -- 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