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

Heya,

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

Using a detached head is a more advanced feature than wanting to checkout a remote branch locally, creating a local tracking branch. As such, 'git checkout origin/topic' now means the same as 'git checkout -t origin/topic', and you can get the old behavior back by doing 'git checkout origin/topic^0'. I don't see what the problem is, if you're using a detached head you're an advanced enough git user that you can remember that you can use '^0' to detach your head. It's not all that uncommon to do 'git checkout HEAD^0' to detach your head to the current branch, no?