hi,
After helping someone on IRC who got themselves into a bit of a problem,
I have a feature request for git.
In this case, the user wanted to checkout a branch of a module. They did:
git clone git://git.gnome.org/gtk+
cd gtk+
git branch gtk-3-4
Obviously this is a user error, but it's a pretty innocent one, and puts
the user in a bad state. When they figure they should have typed "git
checkout gtk-3-4" it is already too late -- they will be taken onto
their locally-created copy of the master branch.
So feature request: 'git branch' should not allow creating a local
branch that has the same name as a branch that already exists on
'origin' (or any remote?) without some sort of --force flag. It could
instead helpfully say:
"""
The branch you are trying to create already exists on the origin.
Are you sure you don't want to checkout this branch using
'git checkout gtk-3-4'
"""
or something like that.
Thoughts?
--
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