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

From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 29, 2010, 21:21 UTC
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e1001291321v708c7cb4sec8e944f336d04fd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001291614550.1681@xanadu.home>

Heya,

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 22:20, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:

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> 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?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

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