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Re: [PATCH] checkout: allow full refnames for local branches

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LHLars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date
May 9, 2007, 09:07 UTC
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On 5/9/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
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> Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > This teaches git-checkout to strip the prefix 'refs/heads/' from the
> > supplied <branch> argument
>
> Why is this necessary, may I ask?
>

I'm playing around with a gui frontend, and there I use git-for-each-ref to obtain possible arguments for git-checkout. That's how I discovered the 'problem', and solved it by stripping 'refs/heads/' in my frontend. But then I thought it would be nice if 'git-checkout' did the stripping on my behalf, since this might bite others too :)

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larsh
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  1. checkout: allow full refnames for local branchesLars Hjemli, May 9, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 9, 2007
  3. Lars HjemliMay 9, 2007
  4. Shawn O. PearceMay 9, 2007
  5. Lars HjemliMay 9, 2007
  6. Shawn O. PearceMay 9, 2007
  7. Lars HjemliMay 9, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 9, 2007
  9. Lars HjemliMay 9, 2007

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