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From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: disable checkout of remote branch
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On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Tim Mazid <timmazid@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hm. I actually meant inside gitk, not git itself. As in, when you click
> inside gitk and try to checkout a remote, it automatically creates a
> tracking branch and checks THAT out instead, whereas command-line git works
> the same way.
> Does that even make sense? :P

It certainly does.  And if gitk is internally running the same
"checkout" command that may happen automatically (in 1.7 or whatever).

I will "watch this space" as they say :)  I stated only my minimum
needs (prevent detached HEAD with even less warning [i.e., zero
warning] than in CLI) and managed minimum code for it.  But any other
solution that achives the same effect is also fine!