From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug: "git checkout -b" should be allowed in empty repo
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:51:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F2F94AC.6010800@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120206050637.GA4263@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On 02/06/2012 06:06 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> I kind of agree that we shouldn't be unnecessarily restrictive. On the
> other hand, I am stretching to find the plausible reason that one would
> want to throw away the normal convention. Code aside, it simply
> introduces a slight communication barrier when talking with other git
> users, and for that reason should be something you don't do lightly. I
> don't recall seeing anybody complain seriously about it in the past six
> years of git's existence.
In the real-world situation when I noticed this bug, I wasn't trying to
use a nonstandard name for "master". What I was doing is importing a
snapshot of some code from another non-git project onto a "vendor
branch", which I knew I would later want to merge into my own work
(which I planned to do on master).
Michael
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Michael Haggerty
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-06 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-29 6:09 Bug: "git checkout -b" should be allowed in empty repo Michael Haggerty
2012-01-29 6:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-29 7:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-30 6:38 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-01-30 18:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-30 20:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-30 21:50 ` Jeff King
2012-02-06 2:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-06 2:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-06 4:30 ` Jeff King
2012-02-06 4:42 ` Andrew Ardill
2012-02-06 5:06 ` Jeff King
2012-02-06 8:51 ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2012-02-06 8:57 ` Jeff King
2012-02-06 18:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-06 20:14 ` Jeff King
2012-02-07 8:04 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-02-06 18:39 ` demerphq
2012-02-06 5:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-06 5:18 ` Jeff King
2012-02-06 5:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-06 5:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-06 5:45 ` Jeff King
2012-02-06 8:59 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-02-06 18:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-30 21:48 ` Jeff King
2012-02-06 1:26 ` [PATCH] branch --edit-description: protect against mistyped branch name Junio C Hamano
2012-02-06 1:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-06 4:20 ` Jeff King
2012-01-31 8:57 ` Bug: "git checkout -b" should be allowed in empty repo Michael Haggerty
2012-01-31 10:01 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-01-31 10:11 ` demerphq
2012-01-31 10:09 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-01-31 16:32 ` Michael Haggerty
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