On 06/19/2012 04:51 PM, Ryan Lortie wrote: > 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? This very much violates the distributed nature of Git. Everything is allowed, because it's *my* repository. -- 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