On 5/9/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lars Hjemli <hjemli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm playing around with a gui frontend, and there I use > git-for-each-ref to obtain possible arguments for git-checkout. That's > how I discovered the 'problem', and solved it by stripping > 'refs/heads/' in my frontend. But then I thought it would be nice if > 'git-checkout' did the stripping on my behalf, since this might bite > others too :) If you are building "porcelain" to sit over Git and offer up a pretty view of things, I would encourage you to avoid the stock porcelain. Don't use git-checkout, its stock porcelain. Instead go right to the plumbing. The plumbing doesn't really change behavior as often (if ever).
Thanks, I probably will (also to avoid the shell scripts, since my porcelain is aimed at my co-workers who are stuck on windows) -- larsh - 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
