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 17:50:24 -0400 Message-ID: <4FE0F420.4030604@desrt.ca> References: <4FE091FB.7020202@desrt.ca> <87a9zztdxt.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> <7v8vfj17de.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4FE0E493.1010308@desrt.ca> <7v8vfjyolq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Thomas Rast , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jun 19 23:50:34 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 1Sh6Ji-0006N6-KW for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:50:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753616Ab2FSVu1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:50:27 -0400 Received: from manic.desrt.ca ([207.192.74.61]:45973 "EHLO mail.desrt.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751548Ab2FSVu0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:50:26 -0400 Received: from [172.16.1.217] (173-230-190-244.cable.teksavvy.com [173.230.190.244]) by manic.desrt.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6DE9A12CD23; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:50:25 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: <7v8vfjyolq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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