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Re: [PATCH] gitk: disable checkout of remote branch

From
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 6, 2009, 08:30 UTC
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Heya,
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 01:45, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>> Sorry, yes, I just saw Sverre's comment and misread the original
>> proposal.  Checking out "$remote/$branch" will still detach the HEAD,
>> and I don't think anybody has a previous proposal to change that.
>
> Heh, I think both of us forgot that we decided it is safe enough not to
> wait for 1.7.0 already, because the situation this kicks in has always
> resulted in an error.  We have it in master since e3de372 (Merge branch
> 'jc/checkout-auto-track', 2009-10-30).

Sorry for causing so much confusion, I misremembered what the patch was about ("git checkout <branch>" vs "git checkout <remote>/<branch>"). Apologies.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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Message 13 of 14 in “gitk: disable checkout of remote branch”
  1. gitk: disable checkout of remote branchSitaram Chamarty, Nov 3, 2009
  2. Sverre RabbelierNov 3, 2009
  3. Tim MazidNov 4, 2009
  4. Sitaram ChamartyNov 4, 2009
  5. Tim MazidNov 4, 2009
  6. Sverre RabbelierNov 4, 2009
  7. Jeff KingNov 4, 2009
  8. Tim MazidNov 4, 2009
  9. Sitaram ChamartyNov 4, 2009
  10. Junio C HamanoNov 4, 2009
  11. Jeff KingNov 5, 2009
  12. Junio C HamanoNov 6, 2009
  13. Sverre RabbelierNov 6, 2009
  14. Paul MackerrasNov 14, 2009

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