On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Ryan Lortie <desrt@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Dont know much about this but to me it looks like a good feature. -- Jaseem Abid http://jaseemabid.github.com -- 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