Re: Detached checkout will clobber branch head when using symlink HEAD

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On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Jeff King wrote:

> 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.

That is unacceptable indeed.


Nicolas
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