From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: disable checkout of remote branch Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:45:24 -0800 Message-ID: <7v8wek7a6z.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <2e24e5b90911030800j22b00372r99a56c3f847a3644@mail.gmail.com> <1257295737457-3942366.post@n2.nabble.com> <2e24e5b90911031758t651735f9xe9d078079112cfa6@mail.gmail.com> <1257315478920-3943388.post@n2.nabble.com> <20091104072709.GC24263@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vhbtai2uy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20091105074808.GA12114@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , Sverre Rabbelier , Tim Mazid , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 06 01:45:49 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N6CxX-0001Cm-Om for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:45:48 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759230AbZKFApf (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:45:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759221AbZKFApf (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:45:35 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:43920 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759211AbZKFApe (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:45:34 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46D6E93C6E; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:45:39 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=QqzS5UJJHfK3W4gLr6YBd8PVuz4=; b=O66ZJ8 rGzxJ+iVUCmoeGmk9XXm/LrGit/zxwir15zMetXribJqZdncAdCsC+vdcTe7ybeL N2+0Mom5gr2aZysoERYKf0tzkMzrFQb0QqooiZGNDUSL5rhlepusNDhdaHYIzktv OvebNp9dzUQSkdhpg2INlQpPwDfQ7iqrfxwDk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=iA40gR+FEhn8O4X2wd/biYVQbIdx14hw 63N38K1qeGfPezKXkLq/jE9j0HDhEDlY9vUcZZZKx38PMJShbKvyYjMWIKwpIEUq pkCis0fAEhFMUKEUlPNAEvgs1AJRFAf3ACbo+o/LwbaJ5wbFLrfDux2FpJBv23hO 6RYB+Ppb1so= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EFB793C6D; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:45:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AD39993C6A; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:45:26 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20091105074808.GA12114@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu\, 5 Nov 2009 02\:48\:08 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: B1C19E6C-CA6D-11DE-9F46-A67CBBB5EC2E-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: >> Isn't it quite different? What's in 'next' for 1.7.0 is to guess the >> user's intention when: > > Sorry, yes, I just saw Sverre's comment and misread the original > proposal. Checking out "$remote/$branch" will still detach the HEAD, > and I don't think anybody has a previous proposal to change that. Heh, I think both of us forgot that we decided it is safe enough not to wait for 1.7.0 already, because the situation this kicks in has always resulted in an error. We have it in master since e3de372 (Merge branch 'jc/checkout-auto-track', 2009-10-30).