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Re: [PATCH] gitk: disable checkout of remote branch

From
TMTim Mazid <timmazid@hotmail.com>
Date
Nov 4, 2009, 06:17 UTC
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Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Tim Mazid <timmazid@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Might be better to include a configuration option to allow this, for
>> those
>> that know what they're doing. Most of the people that know what they're
>> doing will use the command line, anyway, but it may irritate some people.
> 
> I considered that but found my tcl fu was seriously lacking.  These
> are literally the first 3 lines of tcl I ever wrote in my life, and
> this program is one huge 11,000+ line monolith, so I'm naturally
> scared to make more than very, very, small changes :)
> 
> In any case, as you said, most people who know what they're doing can
> use the CLI to get there anyway...
>

Hm, now that I think about it, what might be better is to just do what should be done for them. :P

So instead of invoking 'git checkout REMOTE/BRANCH', do 'git checkout -b BRANCH REMOTE/BRANCH'.

I know you said, you don't know, tcl, but just throwing it out there for anyone else.

Cheers, Tim.

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  1. gitk: disable checkout of remote branchSitaram Chamarty, Nov 3, 2009
  2. Sverre RabbelierNov 3, 2009
  3. Tim MazidNov 4, 2009
  4. Sitaram ChamartyNov 4, 2009
  5. Tim MazidNov 4, 2009
  6. Sverre RabbelierNov 4, 2009
  7. Jeff KingNov 4, 2009
  8. Tim MazidNov 4, 2009
  9. Sitaram ChamartyNov 4, 2009
  10. Junio C HamanoNov 4, 2009
  11. Jeff KingNov 5, 2009
  12. Junio C HamanoNov 6, 2009
  13. Sverre RabbelierNov 6, 2009
  14. Paul MackerrasNov 14, 2009

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