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Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] builtin-checkout: suggest creating local branch when
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:49:27 -0700
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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> Your idea is also a backwards incompatible change, so we can just as
> well implement the original suggestion and force scripts (or us) to
> use some other means when they want to detach.  Say, why not just
> invent an option along the lines of
>
>   git checkout {-d|--detach} $ref
>
> to make it explicit.

Or can't you go the other way, say

	git checkout -t $remote_tracking

to create a local branch forking from the named remote tracking branch?