Codex App: Type branch name to use
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Feb 8, 2026 by benglewis Closed Mar 20, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.
What variant of Codex are you using?
App
What feature would you like to see?
When clicking the button to pick a branch, right now, you have to click the branch you want. This is very inconvenient. It would be much nicer if you could just type the name of the branch that you wanted. Furthermore, that branch list only seems to show local branches and not branches available on the remote. It would be great if Codex could checkout remote branches without requiring you to do the checkout on your own.
Additional information
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2 Comments
Furthermore, it seems like for using the Codex App to launch Cloud tasks, you cannot actually get it to launch tasks on branches which you do not have locally. This doesn't seem logical or intentional
This feature request hasn't received enough upvotes, so closing.