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From: Ryan Lortie <desrt@desrt.ca>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 'git branch' when origin branch with same name exists
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:50:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE0F420.4030604@desrt.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v8vfjyolq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

hi,

On 12-06-19 05:32 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Won't happen.  "git branch new-branch-name" has always been the way
> to create from HEAD.  Suddenly requiring an extra argument is a
> grave usability regression.

Reminder: we're talking only about the case where an unrelated branch 
with the same name already exists upstream...

Cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-19 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-19 14:51 'git branch' when origin branch with same name exists Ryan Lortie
2012-06-19 15:18 ` jaseem abid
2012-06-19 15:35 ` Michael Schubert
2012-06-19 15:54   ` Ryan Lortie
2012-06-19 16:17     ` Philippe Vaucher
2012-06-19 15:57   ` Angus Hammond
2012-06-19 16:06 ` Konstantin Khomoutov
2012-06-19 17:06   ` Ryan Lortie
2012-06-20  8:31     ` Andreas Ericsson
2012-06-19 17:21 ` Thomas Rast
2012-06-19 18:31   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-19 20:44     ` Ryan Lortie
2012-06-19 21:32       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-19 21:50         ` Ryan Lortie [this message]
2012-06-19 23:21       ` Phil Hord
2012-06-20 17:32         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-20 17:51           ` Matthieu Moy
2012-06-20 18:07             ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-19 18:22 ` Junio C Hamano

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