From: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>,
Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] git checkout refs/heads/foo checks out branch foo
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 19:31:12 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1102071925440.3788@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110207234526.GA28336@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Jeff King wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 03:37:15PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> > > Subject: commit: document --detach synonym for "git checkout foo^{commit}"
> > >
> > > For example, one might use this when making a temporary merge to test
> > > that two topics work well together.
> > >
> > > This patch just documents the option. It is not meant for application
> > > without an implementation and tests for the option.
> >
> > On top of v1.7.3.5-1-g0cb6ad3 (uk/checkout-ambiguous-ref)...
>
> Well, I started on tests and your email came just as I was about to
> actually implement. So here are the tests. We didn't seem to have any
> explicit checkout-detached tests before, so I tried to cover existing
> methods in addition to the new option (which means Martin will need to
> tweak one of the tests below when implementing his proposal).
Oops, I didn't know writing a proposal meant signing up to do it as
well ;-). But seriously, this seems like a relatively small change, so
it will hopefully be a good reason for me to push myself to get
started with the C code as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-08 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-07 11:01 [1.8.0] git checkout refs/heads/foo checks out branch foo Martin von Zweigbergk
2011-02-07 20:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-07 20:59 ` Jeff King
2011-02-07 21:36 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-02-07 22:00 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-07 23:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-07 23:45 ` Jeff King
2011-02-08 0:01 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-08 0:28 ` Jeff King
2011-02-08 0:31 ` Martin von Zweigbergk [this message]
2011-02-08 0:52 ` [PATCH/WIP] checkout: introduce --detach synonym for "git checkout foo^{commit}" Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-08 0:55 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-08 10:26 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] " Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-08 10:29 ` [PATCH 1/3] checkout: split off a function to peel away branchname arg Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-08 10:32 ` [PATCH 2/3] checkout: introduce --detach synonym for "git checkout foo^{commit}" Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-08 10:34 ` [PATCH 3/3] checkout: rearrange update_refs_for_switch for clarity Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-07 21:11 ` [1.8.0] git checkout refs/heads/foo checks out branch foo Heiko Voigt
2011-02-08 0:22 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
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