The current behavior was introduced by 20eb9ecec1 "git: don't abandon
HEAD commit when it loses a branch." While the change made HEAD mutation
behavior more consistent with a plain ref operation, HEAD can also move on
checkout, and checkout shouldn't be considered a history rewriting operation.
I'm not saying the new behavior is always correct, but I think it's safer
than losing old HEAD branch. I also think this change will help if we want
to extract HEAD management function from git::import_refs().
Fixes#1042.