On Feb 17, 2008 2:08 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Perhaps making "git-checkout" to notice this and offer (or > > suggest) fast-forwarding at that point may be safer and make > > more sense. You cannot grow your local branch unless you check > > them out, and your remote tracking will keep growing without the > > auto-ff you are suggesting, so it is not like people will lose > > anchoring point to compare between branches if we do not > > auto-ff. > > So I did this. Great - *thanks*. I'm travelling ATM so lousy connectivity and shattered focus. I did a fetch of git.git and can't spot this in next, pu or master. Reading further down the thread I see that you're probably rewriting it to use tree struct. Will give your initial patch a whirl anyway. cheers, martin - 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