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

From: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Date: Jun 21, 2009, 21:34 UTC
Message-ID: <20090622063405.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v3a9uszzl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:

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> Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> At the command line, this gives you a detailed warning message, but the
>> GUI currently allows it without any fuss.
>>
>> Since the GUI is often used by people much less familiar with git, it
>> seems reasonable to make the GUI more restrictive than the command line,
>> not less.
>> ...
>> This patch helps me a lot.
>
> The patch seems to disable checkout unconditionally, but it at least needs
> an "expert mode" switch to bypass the patch's logic, or (better yet) a
> "training wheel" switch for you to set in repositories of the people you
> manage.

It will be more helpful if it checked out a new local branch that tracks the remote branch, instead of refusing what the user asked to do. It may need a new dialog that asks to confirm (and allows the user to change) the name of the new branch.

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Nanako Shiraishi
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