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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Cc:     git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] merge: allow to pretend a merge into detached HEAD is
 made into a branch
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Date:   Mon, 20 Dec 2021 07:55:33 -0800
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Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:

> ...
> consider to introduce something like "--into-name=<name>" instead, that
> will do this renaming unconditionally.

Excellent.

In the scenario I illustrated in the proposed log message, I used a
throw-away temporary working area to prepare the history for a real
branch, and detached HEAD is the perfect match for such a temporary
working area.  But it should not be a crime to use a real temporary
branch for such use case.

Thanks.