From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Bart Kuster <bart.kuster@sidn.nl>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Seemingly inconsistent checkout behaviour
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 14:14:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <221011.86tu4ao8im.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DU2P194MB1584B11245DF0DE7515297B6E3239@DU2P194MB1584.EURP194.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
On Tue, Oct 11 2022, Bart Kuster wrote:
> Dear People of Git,
>
> I had some trouble getting out of a detached HEAD state using git checkout. I’ve solved it now but the behaviour of checkout when doing so leaves me a bit puzzled.
>
> I’d expect the behaviour of the commands below to be equivalent:
>
> git checkout origin/main
>
> vs
>
> git config checkout.defaultRemote origin
> git checkout main
>
> But they are not; the former leaves the HEAD detached while the latter
> sets it to main. I failed to find an explanation in the git-checkout
> documentation, which seems to indicate that checkout always updates
> HEAD.
They're not equivalent, the documentation that describes it is the
discussion of the --guess option.
I.e. these are equivalent:
git checkout main
git checkout --guess main
And the latter of those resolves to (in this case):
git checkout -b main -t origin/main
The "in this case" being that it's actually (pseudocode):
git checkout -b main -t $(find-the-only-remote-that-has-a-branch-named main)/main
And the "checkout.defaultRemote=origin" is a setting that disambiguates
that "find the only" down to "origin", if you happen to have multiple
such remotes.
But I'm still unclear on the "I had some trouble getting out of a
detached HEAD state using git checkout" part of your question, isn't the:
git config checkout.defaultRemote origin
git checkout main
Exactly what you want then?
If you're trying to get a "non-detached remote tracking branch", i.e. to
have this somehow checkout a branch:
git checkout origin/main
Then there's no such thing. We treat them specially, and don't allow you
to check them out as a normal branch, so when you do so you end up with
a detached HEAD pointing to wherever that branch points to. IOW:
git checkout origin/main
Is always the same as:
git checkout origin/main^{}
Given that you have an "origin" remote, a "main" branch, it's not
ambiguous, or the right config blah blah.
That's also documented somewhere, but I didn't dig up where that is...
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2022-10-11 11:39 Seemingly inconsistent checkout behaviour Bart Kuster
2022-10-11 12:14 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2022-10-11 13:03 ` Bart Kuster
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