From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout: allow full refnames for local branches
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 01:48:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v7iriwfeu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11787000032830-git-send-email-hjemli@gmail.com> (Lars Hjemli's message of "Wed, 9 May 2007 10:40:03 +0200")
Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> writes:
> This teaches git-checkout to strip the prefix 'refs/heads/' from the
> supplied <branch> argument, to make
>
> git-checkout refs/heads/master
>
> behave like
>
> git-checkout master
>
> The former command would detach HEAD.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> I'm undecided on wheter this is a bugfix or a new feature. It certainly
> introduces new behaviour, but it passes all the tests.
Why is this necessary, may I ask?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-09 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-09 8:40 [PATCH] checkout: allow full refnames for local branches Lars Hjemli
2007-05-09 8:48 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-05-09 9:07 ` Lars Hjemli
2007-05-09 18:54 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-09 20:01 ` Lars Hjemli
2007-05-09 20:11 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-09 20:38 ` Lars Hjemli
2007-05-09 19:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-09 19:55 ` Lars Hjemli
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