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From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>,
	Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
	Peter Rabbitson <ribasushi@cpan.org>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz"
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 20:13:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100608181353.GA3083@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100608075241.GA3166@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 03:52:42AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>
>   $ git checkout foo
>   Branch private set up to track remote branch foo from origin.
>   Switched to a new branch 'foo'
> 
>   ... time passes ...
> 
>   $ git checkout foo
>   Switched to branch 'foo'
>   Your branch is behind 'origin/foo' by 5 commits, and can be fast-forwarded.

I see. That really is somewhat reassuring. I still do not like it,
but considering the fact that I could not come up with a scenario
worse than that, I suppose the feature is not as bad as I made it
out to be.

Thanks all for discussing it with me anyways.

Regards,
Clemens

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-08 18:14 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
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 [this message]
2010-06-07  7:53     ` Paolo Bonzini

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