Ryan Lortie <desrt@xxxxxxxx> writes: > So to restate the feature request more clearly: "git branch X" with no > explicitly specified start-point should prevent the branch "X" from > being created when a branch with the same name already exists on a > remote (perhaps only considering 'origin'). > > When stated in this more explicit way, it becomes clear that a --force > option would not even be required; you could just say: > > git branch gtk-3-4 HEAD > > to make it clear that this was your intention. Won't happen. "git branch new-branch-name" has always been the way to create from HEAD. Suddenly requiring an extra argument is a grave usability regression. -- 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