Re: [RFC] Introduce .git/BRANCH to point to the current branch

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>,
	Salikh Zakirov <salikh@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Introduce .git/BRANCH to point to the current branch
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:46:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vir3e428i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34peyur8r.fsf@roke.D-201> (Jakub Narebski's message of "Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:42:43 -0800 (PST)")

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

>> Currently, I can do:
>> 
>> # Oh, what did this look like two commits ago?
>> $ git checkout HEAD^^
>> # Ah, OK, let's go back to the tip
>> $ git checkout branch-name
>>                ^^^^^^^^^^^
>> But I have to remember and re-type the branch name.
>
> No, you don't have. You can use
>   $ git checkout ORIG_HEAD
> or
>   $ git checkout HEAD@{1}

But the point is he wants to go back to the branch he came from.  He
does not want to detach HEAD at the original commit.

Having said that, I am not sympathetic to "I have to remember".