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checkout: allow detaching to HEAD even when switching to the tip of a branch

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You cannot currently checkout the tip of an existing branch
without moving to the branch.

This allows you to detach your HEAD and place it at such a
commit, with:

    $ git checkout master^0

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Junio C Hamano
2007-03-29 01:02:50 -07:00
parent 89815cab95
commit 3e0318a361
2 changed files with 64 additions and 3 deletions
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@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ describe_detached_head () {
}
}
if test -z "$branch$newbranch" && test "$new" != "$old"
if test -z "$branch$newbranch" && test "$new_name" != "$old_name"
then
detached="$new"
if test -n "$oldbranch" && test -z "$quiet"
@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ If you want to create a new branch from this checkout, you may do so
(now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:
git checkout -b <new_branch_name>"
fi
elif test -z "$oldbranch"
elif test -z "$oldbranch" && test "$new" != "$old"
then
describe_detached_head 'Previous HEAD position was' "$old"
fi