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

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On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Matt Draisey wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 16:20 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > A symlink HEAD and detached checkouts are simply incompatible.
> 
> Not necessarily.  The symlinking code will unlink the original inode
> each time it creates a new symlink anyway.  It is simply a matter of
> creating a new file in its place.

True.  I didn't think it all through initially.


Nicolas
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