Let git-checkout always drop any detached head

We used to refuse leaving a detached HEAD when it wasn't matching an
existing ref so not to lose any commit that might have been performed
while not on any branch (unless -f was provided).

But this protection was completely bogus since it was still possible
to move to HEAD^ while still remaining detached but losing the last
commit anyway if there was one.

Now that we have a proper reflog for HEAD it is best to simply remove
that bogus (and admitedly annoying) protection and simply display the
last HEAD position instead.  If one wants to recover a lost detached
state then it can be retrieved from the HEAD reflog.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Nicolas Pitre 2007-02-03 21:50:39 -05:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent f2eba66d4d
commit dc9195ac78

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@ -164,22 +164,9 @@ 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 "$oldbranch" && test -n "$branch"
elif test -z "$oldbranch" && test -z "$quiet"
then
# Coming back...
if test -z "$force"
then
git show-ref -d -s | grep "$old" >/dev/null || {
echo >&2 \
"You are not on any branch and switching to branch '$new_name'
may lose your changes. At this point, you can do one of two things:
(1) Decide it is Ok and say 'git checkout -f $new_name';
(2) Start a new branch from the current commit, by saying
'git checkout -b <branch-name>'.
Leaving your HEAD detached; not switching to branch '$new_name'."
exit 1;
}
fi
echo >&2 "Previous HEAD position was $old"
fi
if [ "X$old" = X ]