From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:30:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: disable checkout of remote branch
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0911060030u779ddb64x6017e06f44ac2c10@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v8wek7a6z.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Heya,

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 01:45, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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