From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:59:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: disable checkout of remote branch
Message-ID: <slrnh3tpb9.rhr.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vtz29p3qm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 2009-06-21 23:27:13, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> If we wanted users of gitk to use it to detach HEAD, the current UI is not
> a good way to do so anyway --- it only allows detaching the tip of remote
> tracking branches and not an arbitrary commit.

Aaah -- excellent; wish I'd thought of it :-)  Thanks

> So I retract my earlier objection entirely.  I do not think the feature
> Sitaram is disabling was meant to allow detaching HEAD at all and it can
> be safely disabled for remote tracking branches to make the GUI experience
> safer.

Thanks.  I will resubmit to you and Paul again with the diff
header changed to suit his tree.

Regards,

Sitaram