Re: [PATCH] checkout: allow full refnames for local branches

On 5/9/07, Shawn O. Pearce [off-list ref] wrote:

Lars Hjemli [off-list ref] wrote:

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I'm playing around with a gui frontend, and there I use
git-for-each-ref to obtain possible arguments for git-checkout. That's
how I discovered the 'problem', and solved it by stripping
'refs/heads/' in my frontend. But then I thought it would be nice if
'git-checkout' did the stripping on my behalf, since this might bite
others too :)

If you are building "porcelain" to sit over Git and offer up a pretty
view of things, I would encourage you to avoid the stock porcelain.
Don't use git-checkout, its stock porcelain.  Instead go right to
the plumbing.  The plumbing doesn't really change behavior as often
(if ever).

Thanks, I probably will (also to avoid the shell scripts, since my
porcelain is aimed at my co-workers who are stuck on windows)

-- 
larsh