On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Heiko Voigt wrote: > Hallo Martin, > > On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 06:01:51AM -0500, Martin von Zweigbergk wrote: > > Proposal: > > > > 'git checkout refs/heads/foo' (or 'git checkout heads/foo' for that > > matter) does not check out the branch, but instead detaches HEAD at > > foo. This is quite counter-intuitive (at least to me) and the same > > functionality can be achieved by using e.g. foo~0. Change the behavior > > so that the branch is actually checked out. This also applies to > > e.g. 'git rebase master refs/heads/topic', which currently rebases a > > detached HEAD. There are probably other examples as well that I'm not > > aware of. > > Just to clarify: You are not proposing that 'git checkout origin/master' > would also not checkout to a detached head, right? Because that is a > feature I am using frequently to test branches that have been pushed by > another developer to a remote server. If that would create a new local > branch that would be confusing. Nope, I'm not proposing that. I wouldn't want that either. /Martin -- 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