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Bug 362785

Summary: Cannot change branch base when head is detached
Product: [Technology] EGit Reporter: Dariusz Luksza <dariusz.luksza>
Component: UIAssignee: Dariusz Luksza <dariusz.luksza>
Status: ASSIGNED --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: remy.suen
Version: 1.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Dariusz Luksza CLA 2011-11-03 08:33:26 EDT 
Just discovered that when you check out a particular commit and select team -> switch to -> new branch you cannot change branch base, you can only branch on current selected commit. What I want to do was, creating a new branch based on origin/master, so first I must switch to any other branch then I could crate  new branch based on one of existing ones.

IMHO in such state EGit should propose to create branch based on current commit SHA-1 but also allow to select one of existing ref
Comment 1 Dariusz Luksza CLA 2011-11-04 07:36:39 EDT 
I've pushed change that should fix this http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,4547