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

Jeff King wrote:

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 07:41:28AM +0100, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

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On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 07:17, Tim Mazid [off-list ref] wrote:

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So instead of invoking 'git checkout REMOTE/BRANCH', do 'git checkout

-b

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BRANCH REMOTE/BRANCH'.

Automagically doing 'git checkout -t remote/branch' when asked to do
'git checkout remote/branch' was suggested earlier on the list and I
think there was even a patch that implemented it, not sure what the
outcome of the series was. I do remember that Peff was annoyed by it
at the GitTogether though so it might be a bad idea.

It's in 'next' now. And for the record, my complaint about its behavior
turned out to be partially because I was an idiot. I am still not
convinced that we won't later regret leaving the stale local branch
sitting around, or that users won't find it confusing to see:

  $ git checkout foo
  Branch foo set up to track remote branch foo from origin.
  Switched to a new branch 'foo'

  ... time passes ...

  $ git checkout foo
  Switched to branch 'foo'
  Your branch is behind 'origin/foo' by 1 commit, and can be
fast-forwarded.

Hm. I actually meant inside gitk, not git itself. As in, when you click
inside gitk and try to checkout a remote, it automatically creates a
tracking branch and checks THAT out instead, whereas command-line git works
the same way.
Does that even make sense? :P
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