[PATCH] checkout: allow full refnames for local branches

From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: May 9, 2007, 08:40 UTC
Message-ID: <11787000032830-git-send-email-hjemli@gmail.com>

This teaches git-checkout to strip the prefix 'refs/heads/' from the supplied <branch> argument, to make

	git-checkout refs/heads/master

behave like

	git-checkout master

The former command would detach HEAD.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
---

I'm undecided on wheter this is a bugfix or a new feature. It certainly introduces new behaviour, but it passes all the tests.

 git-checkout.sh |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-checkout.sh b/git-checkout.sh
index ed7c2c5..6ff7b6e 100755
--- a/git-checkout.sh
+++ b/git-checkout.sh
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ while [ "$#" != "0" ]; do
 				echo "unknown flag $arg"
 				exit 1
 			fi
+			arg=$(echo "$arg" | sed -e "s|^refs/heads/||")
 			new="$rev"
 			new_name="$arg"
 			if git-show-ref --verify --quiet -- "refs/heads/$arg"

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1.5.2.rc2.21.g3082a