From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:57:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] clone: factor out checkout code
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> There's also one thing I missed in the commit message that it makes
>> update head code and checkout code more independent. Update head code
>> does not need to maintain our_head_points_at at the end for checkout
>> anymore.
>
> I like that reasoning in general. The logic ought to be:
>
>  - Learn what the remote has;
>
>  - Combine it with --branch parameter, determine what local branch our
>   head _should_ point at;
>
>  - Make our head point at it, and check it out.
>
> I wonder if we can somehow make the above logic more clear in the
> code. Perhaps the first two could be made into a single helper function
> "decide_local_branch()", and the third would be the "checkout()" function
> in your patch, updated to take "const char *" parameter or something?

yeah, I split the first two into update_head() but dropped it for some
reasons I don't remember. That would make the main function easier to
follow. I'll look at it again.
-- 
Duy