Hi, On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Pieter de Bie wrote: > 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? FWIW I am totally opposed to this kind of reasoning. I consider it sloppy to make assumptions that might or might not be true, and to force a change that might be convenient to you, but is likely to hurt others. Besides, your suggestion completely breaks consistency. If somebody asks to name a new branch "origin/master" (and "-b origin/master" is _just_ _that_), then it is not Git's job to fix the user's mistake. Just like it is not Git's job to fix when somebody said "git commit", but meant "git push". After all, I might _want_ to create a local branch "origin/master", and you would just break the valid assumption that "-b origin/master" would do that for me. Hth, Dscho -- 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
