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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] builtin-checkout: suggest creating local branch when
   appropriate to do so
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:32:01 +0200
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Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> #1. These used to detach, but will create a local branch
> 
>  $ git checkout origin/next        ;# as if with -t
>  $ git checkout xyzzy/frotz        ;# as if with -t (origin is not special)

If I did 'git checkout origin/next' last week, I will already have a
branch next. What should happen if I do it again today?

I think that it should DWIM: If last week's next fast-fowards to this
week's origin/next (*and* next is the branch that tracks origin/next),
then the fast foward should happen. Otherwise 'git checkout origin/next'
should fail.

This way, if I built on last week's next, I will be notified; but if I
only want to browse history, then I won't be impeded by the existence of next.

-- Hannes