From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 20:01:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout: allow full refnames for local branches
Message-ID: <8c5c35580705091301s19dcd2e0q20a4c84e3dd23d82@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070509185440.GB3141@spearce.org>

On 5/9/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> 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).

Thanks, I probably will (also to avoid the shell scripts, since my
porcelain is aimed at my co-workers who are stuck on windows)

-- 
larsh