Re: [PATCH 1/2] Allow users to require source branch on git-checkout -b.

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:31:52PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 
> >> But my main complaint is just that I wouldn't want to see the behavior
> >> of defaulting to HEAD--behavior which is simple, easy to explain, and
> >> shared by most other git commands--by something significantly more
> >> complicated.  That's more a complaint about Junio's suggestion than
> >> yours, though.
> >
> > True, defaulting to HEAD is something that is done almost everywhere.
> > Changing it for `git checkout -b` may surprise a lot of people,
> > almost as much as --index vs. --cached.
> 
> I did not mean to change the default to something other than
> HEAD depending on the configuration.

Right, I understand that behavior in existing repositories is not
changed...

> > (3) otherwise, it barfs if you do not give an explicit
> >     branch-point.
> 
> ... but a newly created repositories would have an
> allowbranchbydefault entry on "master" (and only on "master"),
> which means new people would be prevented from making mistakes
> when on a non-master branch 'foo':

... my concern is the default behavior on newly created repositories,
which (unless I've misunderstood) would become more complicated.

> But I do not deeply care about this.

OK.  Me neither, to be honest.