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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout --track: make up a sensible branch name if '-b' was omitted
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:44:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vtzdu6nb7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0808091559460.24820@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Sat, 9 Aug 2008 16:00:12 +0200 (CEST)")

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> What does the user most likely want with this command?
>
> 	$ git checkout --track origin/next
>
> Exactly.  A branch called 'next', that tracks origin's branch 'next'.

I like this.

An explicit --track request from the command line (as opposed to happening
to have "branch.autosetupmerge" configuration) is a very good cue that
what the user wants to do is not to take a peek on a detached HEAD but a
more permanent playpen created.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-09 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-09 14:00 [PATCH] checkout --track: make up a sensible branch name if '-b' was omitted Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-09 18:44 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-08-09 19:46   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-09 21:08     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-09 21:11       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-09 21:44         ` Pieter de Bie
2008-08-10 23:02           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-11 11:01         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-11 18:54           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-09 21:56       ` Tarmigan

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