Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> 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). -- 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