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From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the next
	CLI revamp
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:51:39 -0700
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On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 00:55 +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > involves typing the branch name twice.  I end up writing things like:
> > 
> >   git checkout -b {,origin/}wr34251-do-something
> 
> Can't you use currently
> 
>     git checkout --track origin/wr34251-do-something

Ah, that's a new feature.  Still, I think it's poorly Huffman coded; far
too verbose.

But let's resume this discussion after I dig up the old thread about
pushing and pulling too... I think it makes sense to look at this as a
whole.

Cheers,
Sam.