On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > Heya, > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 22:29, Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Then who was arguing about making Git more user friendly rather > > then less? > > Using a detached head is a more advanced feature than wanting to > checkout a remote branch locally, creating a local tracking branch. As > such, 'git checkout origin/topic' now means the same as 'git checkout > -t origin/topic', and you can get the old behavior back by doing 'git > checkout origin/topic^0'. What purpose does this "feature" serve? Making sure people remain stupid and get even more confused when the special dwimery doesn't work because they don't know the difference between a local branch and a remote tracking branch? And now people will be left wondering why after a fetch they don't get the latest stuff when they do "git checkout topic" again. Is this any better? > I don't see what the problem is, if you're > using a detached head you're an advanced enough git user that you can > remember that you can use '^0' to detach your head. I don't agree with the assertion that a detached HEAD is for advanced users only. > It's not all that uncommon to do 'git checkout HEAD^0' to detach your > head to the current branch, no? Certainly way more uncommon than 'git checkout origin/foo', and way less intuitive. Nicolas -- 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