From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Lortie Subject: Re: 'git branch' when origin branch with same name exists Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:54:40 -0400 Message-ID: <4FE0A0C0.2080409@desrt.ca> References: <4FE091FB.7020202@desrt.ca> <4FE09C39.50702@elegosoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Schubert X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jun 19 17:55:38 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sh0mE-00088I-Ua for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:55:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754757Ab2FSPyq (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:54:46 -0400 Received: from manic.desrt.ca ([207.192.74.61]:40106 "EHLO mail.desrt.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754706Ab2FSPyl (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:54:41 -0400 Received: from [172.16.0.159] (173-230-190-244.cable.teksavvy.com [173.230.190.244]) by manic.desrt.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5F3DB12CD23; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:54:41 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4FE09C39.50702@elegosoft.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: hi Michael, On 12-06-19 11:35 AM, Michael Schubert wrote: > This very much violates the distributed nature of Git. Everything > is allowed, because it's *my* repository. It is certainly allowed, as originally mentioned, with a --force option of some kind. It is only prevented by default because it is likely you are making a mistake... Cheers