Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@xxxxxx> writes: > On Feb 8, 2008, at 8:48 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Perhaps it might make sense to have a checkout hook that notices >> the branch that is being checked out is meant to build on top of >> a corresponding remote tracking branch, and performs the >> necessary fast-forward when that is the case. > > Or just print a warning that there are new commits on the > tracked branch and leave the decision how to proceed to > the user? Yeah, that would be even safer. And I do not mind if the "git checkout" learned to do so natively without needing of such a hook. - 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