On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > At some point, trying to educate the user is not helpful but annoying. If > Git already knows what I want, why does it not do it already? _That_ is > the question I already hear in my ears. Modify checkout so that the first commit while detached automatically creates a branch. Perhaps the name is derived from the branch point, or the user is prompted for a name. This doesn't help with the original problem, which was that a user attempted to checkout refs/remotes/origin/<name> by just saying 'git checkout <name>' which I happen to think should work. A lot of what I keep hearing in this thread seems to be in the vein of the perfect being the enemy of the good. That rambled a bit. Sorry. j. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html