Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Requiring starting point and failing without --force will never > happen, but it could be a possible approach to issue an additional > advice message under reasonably narrow conditions, namely: > > - The starting point was not given explicitly; > > - It would have DWIMed to "git checkout -t -b it origin/it" when > creating the branch (I think you need to check configurations > like branch.autosetupmerge and existence of the tracking branch > remotes/origin/it); and > > - advice.branchNotTrackingCorrespondingRemote is not set to false. I like that. Stg like $ git branch next Creating local branch next starting from <sha1>. If you meant to checkout a new branch 'next' to track remote branch 'next' from 'origin', run these commands now: git branch -d next; git checkout next -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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