From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
To: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Peter Rabbitson <ribasushi@cpan.org>
Subject: Re: DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz"
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 20:29:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100607182956.GA17343@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilvHl-8eA6CbEDs4ty3h0h670L_enGsXunHxaPE@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 02:26:08PM -0700, Jacob Helwig wrote:
>
> > And this is exactly _why_ it can be marginally useful if the
> > foretelling is correct, but all the more confusing if it's not.
> >
>
> Other than "unexpected success", how is the DWIM behavior confusing,
> given that it says exactly what it's doing when the DWIM behavior is
> invoked? I'm still not clear what the confusion you're referring to
> is on this one.
I am telling git to checkout a branch. Instead it creates a branch.
That is what is confusing to me. Until I found the commit that
introduced it, I was sure it must be a bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-07 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-05 11:09 DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz" Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-05 13:29 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-06-05 13:58 ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-05 14:03 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-06-05 15:02 ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-05 18:23 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-06-06 16:18 ` Jeff King
2010-06-06 16:55 ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-06 16:59 ` Jacob Helwig
2010-06-06 17:32 ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-06 17:34 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-06-06 21:26 ` Jacob Helwig
2010-06-07 18:29 ` Clemens Buchacher [this message]
2010-06-07 20:11 ` Jan Krüger
2010-06-07 21:12 ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-06 18:34 ` Johan Herland
2010-06-06 16:18 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-06-06 16:46 ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-07 6:41 ` Miles Bader
2010-06-07 18:54 ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-07 19:17 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-06-07 19:32 ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-07 19:52 ` Bruce Stephens
2010-06-08 8:07 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-06-08 8:18 ` demerphq
2010-06-08 8:37 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-06-08 0:25 ` Miles Bader
2010-06-08 7:29 ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-08 7:47 ` demerphq
2010-06-08 13:04 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-06-08 7:52 ` Miles Bader
2010-06-08 7:52 ` Jeff King
2010-06-08 18:13 ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-07 7:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
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