Re: git checkout -b -t

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John Tapsell venit, vidit, dixit 02.06.2009 16:49:
> Hey all,
> 
>   I've become the "guy to ask about git" in my company and people are
> always getting into a mess with git.  So in turn I try to get git to
> be a more friendly.  Today someone had a problem.  Basically they had
> done:
> 
> $ git checkout -t origin/mybranch
> fatal: git checkout: --track and --no-track require -b
> 
> So they do exactly what it tells them:
> $ git checkout -b -t origin/mybranch
> Switched to a new branch "-t"
> 
> doh
> 
> How can we make this less easy for people to shoot themselves in the
> foot?  The behavior of -t has changed recently iirc, so I think that
> problem has gone away?

git 1.6.1 and above contains DWIMery which, in the case above, would
automatically behave like

git checkout -t origin/mybranch -b mybranch

which complains in case 'mybranch' exists already, without pointing at
'-b', though. Do you think this creates a new type of head aches for
your patients?

> 
> Also:
> $ git branch -D -t
> 
> Doesn't work.  I can see why, but it does make my life difficult :-D
> 
> John

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