Re: Instructions concerning detached head lead to lost local changes

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: 2007-02-02 18:44:24
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> It's just that moving around amongst thousands of commits to pin point a 
> particular commit might require some digging work.  This is why there 
> might be some value in a particular position and why there is an attempt 
> at protecting that "work".
>
> But since moving to another position while still remaining detached from 
> any branch has the same potential for losing the important position and 
> so without any kind of protection then it makes no sense to have such a 
> protection when moving back to a branch.

Thanks -- I'd agree.

Also I agree that "reflog on HEAD" is the right direction as it
makes these 'protection' unnecessary.  I've applied all your
patches from today on the topic, along with Johannes's "log -g
@{now}".


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