Carl Worth <cworth@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:37:42 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Carl Worth <cworth@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > So, could we fix this so that a remote branch name will resolve >> > without the "origin/" prefix if it is not ambiguous? >> >> I am fairly negative on this one, especially I do not think the >> symptom deserves to be described with the word "fix". DWIM is >> good, but it has bounds, and this particular one feels it is >> slightly on the other side of the boundary. > > I can accept that argument. > > With "fix" I was referring to the backwards-compatibility problem, > (that I don't have a way to give branch checkout instructions to users > that will work for both 1.5 and pre-1.5 versions of git). If you tell your users to --use-separate-remote in the "git clone" instruction, would that solve your backward compatibility problem? - 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