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Re: [PATCH/WIP] checkout: introduce --detach synonym for "git checkout foo^{commit}"

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 8, 2011, 00:55 UTC
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Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> Jeff King wrote:
>
>> Jonathan, do you want to roll all of these up into a single patch?
>
> Okay, here it is.

Ah, should have mentioned: this applies on top of a merge of en/and-cascade-tests~25 (aka v1.7.4-rc0~65^2~19, test-lib: make test_expect_code a test command, 2010-10-03) and uk/checkout-ambiguous-ref.

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Message 12 of 18 in “[1.8.0] git checkout refs/heads/foo checks out branch foo”
  1. Martin von ZweigbergkFeb 7, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 7, 2011
  3. Jeff KingFeb 7, 2011
  4. Sverre RabbelierFeb 7, 2011
  5. Jonathan NiederFeb 7, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 7, 2011
  7. Jeff KingFeb 7, 2011
  8. Jonathan NiederFeb 8, 2011
  9. Jeff KingFeb 8, 2011
  10. Martin von ZweigbergkFeb 8, 2011
  11. checkout: introduce --detach synonym for "git checkout foo^{commit}"Jonathan Nieder, Feb 8, 2011
  12. Jonathan NiederFeb 8, 2011
  13. 0/3 checkout: introduce --detach synonym for "git checkout foo^{commit}"Jonathan Nieder, Feb 8, 2011
  14. 1/3 checkout: split off a function to peel away branchname argJonathan Nieder, Feb 8, 2011
  15. 2/3 checkout: introduce --detach synonym for "git checkout foo^{commit}"Jonathan Nieder, Feb 8, 2011
  16. 3/3 checkout: rearrange update_refs_for_switch for clarityJonathan Nieder, Feb 8, 2011
  17. Heiko VoigtFeb 7, 2011
  18. Martin von ZweigbergkFeb 8, 2011

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