From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] builtin-checkout: suggest creating local branch when appropriate to do so Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:33:09 +0200 Message-ID: <200910141133.11386.trast@student.ethz.ch> References: <0016e68fd0123a175304754694b4@google.com> <7vhbu2syi6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , Jeff King , Daniel Barkalow , Johannes Sixt , , Mikael Magnusson , Matthieu Moy , Jay Soffian , To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 14 11:37:32 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1My0IU-0003s4-07 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:37:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758064AbZJNJeg (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:34:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756847AbZJNJef (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:34:35 -0400 Received: from gwse.ethz.ch ([129.132.178.237]:54747 "EHLO gwse.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756073AbZJNJee (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:34:34 -0400 Received: from CAS01.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.235) by gws00.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.237) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.176.0; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:33:47 +0200 Received: from thomas.localnet (129.132.153.233) by mail.ethz.ch (129.132.178.227) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.176.0; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:34:04 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.27.29-0.1-default; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > Let me tell you this from my experience: the least likely answer is "the > messages are too scary". Invariably, the answer I get is "it is totally > unintuitive". Often followed by "I tell Git to do something > straight-forward, and it refuses to do it." -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch