Re: [1.8.0] git checkout refs/heads/foo checks out branch foo

On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Heiko Voigt wrote:

Hallo Martin,

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 06:01:51AM -0500, Martin von Zweigbergk wrote:

quoted

Proposal:

'git checkout refs/heads/foo' (or 'git checkout heads/foo' for that
matter) does not check out the branch, but instead detaches HEAD at
foo. This is quite counter-intuitive (at least to me) and the same
functionality can be achieved by using e.g. foo~0. Change the behavior
so that the branch is actually checked out. This also applies to
e.g. 'git rebase master refs/heads/topic', which currently rebases a
detached HEAD. There are probably other examples as well that I'm not
aware of.

Just to clarify: You are not proposing that 'git checkout origin/master'
would also not checkout to a detached head, right? Because that is a
feature I am using frequently to test branches that have been pushed by
another developer to a remote server. If that would create a new local
branch that would be confusing.

Nope, I'm not proposing that. I wouldn't want that either.

/Martin