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From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
To: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Cc: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git checkout -b origin/mybranch origin/mybranch
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:08:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49BA68D1.2070102@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43d8ce650903120714g782b98e8t81340546547fe98d@mail.gmail.com>

John Tapsell venit, vidit, dixit 12.03.2009 15:14:
> 2009/3/12 Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>:
>> Heya,
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 14:18, John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is probably a mistake by the user.  We should warn the user and point
>>> them in the right direction.
>>
>> The point is that we _already_ warned the user (like Dscho pointed
>> out), and that(as you pointed out), it didn't work :P.
> 
> Just doing:
> 
> git branch -b origin/master origin/master
> 
> gives no error or warning at all.

...and it really should not. If you have a repo with lots of remotes and
tracking branches, it makes a lot of sense to have a local branch
reponame/branchname which tracks the remote branch reponame/branchname.
Note that the first is refs/heads/reponame/branchname whereas the latter
is refs/remotes/reponame/branchname. It gives warnings when it's
ambiguous, yay.

Michael J Gruber

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-13 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-12 11:36 git checkout -b origin/mybranch origin/mybranch John Tapsell
2009-03-12 11:40 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-03-12 11:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-12 11:48   ` John Tapsell
2009-03-12 13:02     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-12 13:18       ` John Tapsell
2009-03-12 13:43         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-03-12 14:14           ` John Tapsell
2009-03-13 14:08             ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
2009-03-12 15:21           ` Pieter de Bie
2009-03-12 15:37             ` Jeff King
2009-03-12 16:16               ` John Tapsell
2009-03-12 16:35                 ` Jeff King
2009-03-12 16:40                   ` Pieter de Bie
2009-03-12 16:51                     ` Jeff King
2009-03-12 16:58                       ` John Tapsell
2009-03-12 17:14                         ` Jeff King
2009-03-12 17:45                           ` John Tapsell
2009-03-12 16:45                   ` John Tapsell
2009-03-12 18:31         ` Junio C Hamano

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