From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 21:15:38 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Flush the HEAD cache in set_head_file()
X-Git-Tag: v0.8~60
X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~mdw/git/stgit/commitdiff_plain/24eede728321fce4f73d812f3af2a35f679c2f9e

Flush the HEAD cache in set_head_file()

This function also changes the value read from the HEAD link but it didn't
flush the internal cached value.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/stgit/git.py b/stgit/git.py
index de8d47f..df3adad 100644
--- a/stgit/git.py
+++ b/stgit/git.py
@@ -236,6 +236,9 @@ def get_head_file():
 def set_head_file(ref):
     """Resets HEAD to point to a new ref
     """
+    # head cache flushing is needed since we might have a different value
+    # in the new head
+    __clear_head_cache()
     if __run('git-symbolic-ref HEAD', [ref]) != 0:
         raise GitException, 'Could not set head to "%s"' % ref