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Bug 312576

Summary:	Double-clicking branches checks them out in 'Git Repositories' view
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Remy Suen <remy.suen>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	mathias.kinzler, stefan.lay
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Remy Suen

2010-05-12 06:26:08 EDT

Am I the only one that finds this counterintuitive? A checkout is a pretty drastic operation and while it seems pretty speedy with Git, I'm not sure I agree with this behaviour.

Comment 1 Mathias Kinzler

2011-03-24 13:05:47 EDT

Looks like no one else is objections. And we go a long way to avoid data loss due to inadvertent checkouts...