On Aug 9, 2008, at 11:11 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
(1) You may not necessarily are used to --track, but may still
want this
done. It might not be a bad idea to associate this "local
dwimming"
to creation of a new branch. In other words, all of these:
$ git checkout -b origin/next
This cannot be dwimmed, as it literally means "start a new branch
called
'origin/next' from HEAD".
Right. Forget this part.
This is too bad. I often see people make mistakes like
git checkout -b origin/master
or
git checkout -b origin/master origin/master
which should be
git checkout -b origin/master master
I think both forms should at least be an error if the remote branch
"origin/master" already exists, as then suddenly they aren't reachable
anymore by using "origin/master".
Changing the behaviour to mean "git checkout -b origin/master master"
will change the meaning, but who uses -b with an existing remote
branch anyway? I think the current behaviour leads to more confusion
in every case and should at least error out ("Error: creating a local
repository with the same name as the remote is not allowed") or do
what it's meant to do, which is create a local repository with the
trailing part.
Just my .02,
- Pieter
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