OS/2 tricks: Qt Creator and git "You did not checkout a branch"
If you use Qt Creator 2.2.1 and git, you may encounter "You did not checkout a branch" when commiting even if other functions of git are working well. This is because git changed the output style of 'status' command. For example, git 1.7.3.2 prepends '#' to each message line. However, git 1.8.5.2 does not. The ways to avoid this problem are upgrading Qt Creator or downgrading git. Unforunately, however, both are not acceptable solutions. The other way is to patch the sources of Qt Creator and to build your own one. Here is the patch for Qt Creator 2.2.1. Colored By Color Scripter ™ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 diff --git a/src/plugins/git/commitdata.cpp b/src/plugins/git/commitdata.cpp index 6bc2a97..3eb6562 100644 --- a/src/plugi
