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 -- 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