At the command line, this gives you a detailed warning message, but the GUI currently allows it without any fuss. Since the GUI is often used by people much less familiar with git, it seems reasonable to make the GUI more restrictive than the command line, not less. This prevents a lot of detached HEAD commits by new users. Signed-off-by: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@xxxxxxxxx> --- I have a lot of new users, and I'd really appreciate it if someone could review (hey it's my first Tcl code in all my life!) and approve; this will save me a whole boatload of trouble :-) If someone disagrees with the logic that the GUI should be more "safe" than the command line please do let me know. gitk-git/gitk | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) mode change 100644 => 100755 gitk-git/gitk diff --git a/gitk-git/gitk b/gitk-git/gitk old mode 100644 new mode 100755 index 8c66d17..411bc52 --- a/gitk-git/gitk +++ b/gitk-git/gitk @@ -8770,6 +8770,9 @@ proc headmenu {x y id head} { set headmenuid $id set headmenuhead $head set state normal + if {[string match "remotes/*" $head]} { + set state disabled + } if {$head eq $mainhead} { set state disabled } -- 1.6.3.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html