From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:32:41 GMT
Subject: Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e1001291332w1d161f8at58aa6fe6908bd77f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001291628510.1681@xanadu.home>

Heya,

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 22:29, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
> Then who was arguing about making Git more user friendly rather
> then less?

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?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier