From: Michael Schubert <mschub@elegosoft.com>
To: Ryan Lortie <desrt@desrt.ca>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 'git branch' when origin branch with same name exists
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:35:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE09C39.50702@elegosoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FE091FB.7020202@desrt.ca>
On 06/19/2012 04:51 PM, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> So feature request: 'git branch' should not allow creating a local
> branch that has the same name as a branch that already exists on
> 'origin' (or any remote?) without some sort of --force flag. It could
> instead helpfully say:
>
> """
>
> The branch you are trying to create already exists on the origin.
> Are you sure you don't want to checkout this branch using
> 'git checkout gtk-3-4'
>
> """
>
> or something like that.
>
> Thoughts?
This very much violates the distributed nature of Git. Everything
is allowed, because it's *my* repository.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-19 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-19 14:51 'git branch' when origin branch with same name exists Ryan Lortie
2012-06-19 15:18 ` jaseem abid
2012-06-19 15:35 ` Michael Schubert [this message]
2012-06-19 15:54 ` Ryan Lortie
2012-06-19 16:17 ` Philippe Vaucher
2012-06-19 15:57 ` Angus Hammond
2012-06-19 16:06 ` Konstantin Khomoutov
2012-06-19 17:06 ` Ryan Lortie
2012-06-20 8:31 ` Andreas Ericsson
2012-06-19 17:21 ` Thomas Rast
2012-06-19 18:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-19 20:44 ` Ryan Lortie
2012-06-19 21:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-19 21:50 ` Ryan Lortie
2012-06-19 23:21 ` Phil Hord
2012-06-20 17:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-20 17:51 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-06-20 18:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-19 18:22 ` Junio C Hamano
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