Hi, On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 02:59:28PM +0000, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:52:53AM -0700, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > +1 to Nico's NAK. > > > > > > Although I was at the GitTogether I don't remember this change to > > > checkout being discussed. I must have been asleep reading email > > > or something. I am _NOT_ in favor of this change; I think the > > > current behavior of "git checkout origin/master" is correct and as > > > sane as we can make it. > > > > Except he was talking about 'git checkout branch', not 'git checkout > > origin/branch'. And I would be fine with 'git checkout branch' doing > > what 'git checkout -b branch $remote/branch' does if $remote is unique > > (i.e. there is no other 'branch' branch in any other remote) and the > > 'branch' branch doesn't already exist. > > Seconded. > > Having git-checkout $foo being a shorthand for git checkout -b $foo > origin/$foo when origin/$foo exists and $foo doesn't is definitely handy. Have you guys actually checked out what git checkout -t origin/foo does? Ciao, 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
