Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Jan 29, 2010, 21:29 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001291628510.1681@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e1001291321v708c7cb4sec8e944f336d04fd@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

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> Heya,
> 
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 22:20, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
> > With all due respects, I don't share Dscho's sentiment about Git's
> > alleged non user-friendliness.  And I always praised Git's ability to
> > use a detached head to check out a remote branch, and never had any
> > problem teaching this concept to people.  So the above is not a UI
> > improvement at all to me.
> 
> I think 'git checkout origin/master^0' still works?

Then who was arguing about making Git more user friendly rather then less?

Nicolas

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