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

> Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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 :)
>
> If you are building "porcelain" to sit over Git and offer up a pretty
> view of things, I would encourage you to avoid the stock porcelain.
> Don't use git-checkout, its stock porcelain.  Instead go right to
> the plumbing.  The plumbing doesn't really change behavior as often
> (if ever).