From: Bruce Stephens <bruce.stephens@isode.com>
To: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Peter Rabbitson <ribasushi@cpan.org>
Subject: Re: DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz"
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:52:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <80631uboye.fsf@tiny.isode.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100607193226.GA19789@localhost> (Clemens Buchacher's message of "Mon, 7 Jun 2010 21:32:26 +0200")
Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> writes:
[...]
> "git checkout <branch>", on the other hand, will create a branch
> based on a remote branch, even though you neither asked for a new
> branch, nor did you specify any remote at all.
Provided such a branch doesn't already exist and that only one remote
matches. I agree it's magic (and understand why people might not like
it) but personally I find it convenient.
Possibly (because it hides the distinction between local and remote
branches a little) it would be better opt-in than the default, but I
think a reasonable case could be made in both directions.
[...]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-07 19:52 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
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 [this message]
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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