Re: [PATCH] checkout: warn about 'branch name' rather than 'local branch'

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 29, 2010, 21:42 UTC
Message-ID: <7vvdekh9kb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1264799342-11093-1-git-send-email-srabbelier@gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:

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> These days, you can say "git checkout topic" to automagically create
> a local "topic" branch that forks from "origin/topic" remote tracking
> branch when you have one, thanks to Dscho's UI improvement ideas. As
> such it is more appropriate to say that the user is checking out
> something that is not a branch name, rather than saying it is not a
> 'local branch'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
> ---
>
>   Junio, I used part of your reply as the commit message, is that ok?
>
>   Only change is s/local branch/branch name/.

I explained why I think that is not solving the real problem. To a user faced with an unexpected detached HEAD situation, it is not very important to explain how we were forced to detach (i.e. because you didn't tell me to switch to a branch).