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From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: "Lay, Stefan" <stefan.lay@sap.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"jgit-dev@eclipse.org" <jgit-dev@eclipse.org>,
	"manuel.doniger@googlemail.com" <manuel.doniger@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: How to specify a default <start-point> for git branch
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 12:11:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201109081211.34314.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D3AA6127B29A3048B2939A08CC561AF55EDD6CDD0E@DEWDFECCR01.wdf.sap.corp>

Lay, Stefan wrote:
> Is it possible in git to configure a default <start-point> for the git-branch command?

Literally as you propose it's probably not going to happen.  It would
break every script ever written that uses "git branch <foo>" to start
a new branch at the current commit.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

      reply	other threads:[~2011-09-08 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-08  8:00 How to specify a default <start-point> for git branch Lay, Stefan
2011-09-08 10:11 ` Thomas Rast [this message]

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