From: Bruce Stephens <bruce.stephens@isode.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:44:47 GMT
Subject: Re: Change in "git checkout" behaviour between 1.6.0.2 and 1.6.0.3
Message-ID: <80od0ksp8w.fsf@tiny.isode.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vprl0oiw6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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

[...]

> Yeah, it was meant to allow:
>
> 	git clone -n $there $here
>         cd $here
>         git checkout
>
> and was not taking care of the case to switch branches when the initial
> checkout is made.

That specific sequence does work.  I guess that's why I hadn't noticed
the issue for so long (I guess git's test suite has some tests using
"clone -n", and perhaps they're of that form).

> Perhaps this would help.

Works for me.

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