From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Should "git symbolic-ref -d HEAD" be forbidden?
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:08:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqpoonuy4n.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
I think we should.
t1401 expects to be able to, but if you really do it:
$ cd /tmp
$ git init throwaway
$ cd throwaway
$ git symbolic-ref -d HEAD
the setup machinery considers that you are no longer in a working
tree that is controlled by a repository at .git/ because .git/ is
no longer a valid repository, so you cannot even do
$ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/master
to recover.
next reply other threads:[~2016-09-01 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-01 21:08 Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-09-01 21:19 ` Should "git symbolic-ref -d HEAD" be forbidden? Jeff King
2016-09-01 22:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-02 0:55 ` Jeff King
2016-09-02 9:19 ` Andreas Schwab
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