Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?

Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

Heya,

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 22:29, Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

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?

[I'm still catching up on this thread]

What we call 'Detached head' is _the_ normal way ti use git for quite a 
number of users. And given the current UI, it's not really advanced.