From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:46:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: disable checkout of remote branch
Message-ID: <2e24e5b90911040846y35098a62m2ecd20c54263c494@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1257325697830-3943894.post@n2.nabble.com>

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Tim Mazid <timmazid@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hm. I actually meant inside gitk, not git itself. As in, when you click
> inside gitk and try to checkout a remote, it automatically creates a
> tracking branch and checks THAT out instead, whereas command-line git works
> the same way.
> Does that even make sense? :P

It certainly does.  And if gitk is internally running the same
"checkout" command that may happen automatically (in 1.7 or whatever).

I will "watch this space" as they say :)  I stated only my minimum
needs (prevent detached HEAD with even less warning [i.e., zero
warning] than in CLI) and managed minimum code for it.  But any other
solution that achives the same effect is also fine!