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Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout: allow full refnames for local branches
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 01:48:57 -0700
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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?