From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 09:07:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout: allow full refnames for local branches
Message-ID: <8c5c35580705090207y2979aaa5u7ce9de5fa1dfe658@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v7iriwfeu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 5/9/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> 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 :)

-- 
larsh