Re: [PATCH] gitk: disable checkout of remote branch

Quoting Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]:

Sitaram Chamarty [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

At the command line, this gives you a detailed warning message, but the
GUI currently allows it without any fuss.

Since the GUI is often used by people much less familiar with git, it
seems reasonable to make the GUI more restrictive than the command line,
not less.
...
This patch helps me a lot.

The patch seems to disable checkout unconditionally, but it at least needs
an "expert mode" switch to bypass the patch's logic, or (better yet) a
"training wheel" switch for you to set in repositories of the people you
manage.

It will be more helpful if it checked out a new local branch that tracks the remote branch, instead of refusing what the user asked to do. It may need a new dialog that asks to confirm (and allows the user to change) the name of the new branch.

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