On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 02:12:29PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> The original API read "checkout: moving from (.*) to ..." from the
> reflog of the HEAD, and returned the substring between "from" and
> "to", but there was no way, if the substring was a 40-hex string, to
> tell if we were on a detached HEAD at that commit object, or on a
> branch whose name happened to be the 40-hex string.
>
> At this point, we cannot afford to change the format recorded in the
> reflog, so introduce a heuristics to see if the 40-hex matches the
> object name of the commit we are switching out of. This will
> unfortunately mishandle this case:
>
> HEX=$(git rev-parse master)
> git checkout -b $HEX master
> git checkout master
I do not think I've ever seen a 40-hex branch name in practice, but I
would think a branch named after the commit tip would be a reasonably
common reason to have one, and would trigger this case.
Since the point of marking the detached HEAD is to turn off things like
"@{-1}@{u}", we would want to be generous and err on the side of
assuming it is a branch if it _might_ be one. IOW, shouldn't we treat
the above sequence as a branch, and therefore mishandle:
git checkout $HEX^0 master
git checkout master
by erroneously assuming that we moved to the branch $HEX?
-Peff
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