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From: Bruce Stephens <bruce.stephens@isode.com>
To: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
	Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Peter Rabbitson <ribasushi@cpan.org>
Subject: Re: DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz"
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:52:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80631uboye.fsf@tiny.isode.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100607193226.GA19789@localhost> (Clemens Buchacher's message of "Mon, 7 Jun 2010 21:32:26 +0200")

Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> writes:

[...]

> "git checkout <branch>", on the other hand, will create a branch
> based on a remote branch, even though you neither asked for a new
> branch, nor did you specify any remote at all.

Provided such a branch doesn't already exist and that only one remote
matches.  I agree it's magic (and understand why people might not like
it) but personally I find it convenient.

Possibly (because it hides the distinction between local and remote
branches a little) it would be better opt-in than the default, but I
think a reasonable case could be made in both directions.

[...]

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-07 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-05 11:09 DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz" Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-05 13:29 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-06-05 13:58   ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-05 14:03     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-06-05 15:02       ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-05 18:23         ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-06-06 16:18       ` Jeff King
2010-06-06 16:55         ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-06 16:59           ` Jacob Helwig
2010-06-06 17:32             ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-06 17:34               ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-06-06 21:26               ` Jacob Helwig
2010-06-07 18:29                 ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-07 20:11                   ` Jan Krüger
2010-06-07 21:12                     ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-06 18:34           ` Johan Herland
2010-06-06 16:18 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-06-06 16:46   ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-07  6:41     ` Miles Bader
2010-06-07 18:54       ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-07 19:17         ` Matthieu Moy
2010-06-07 19:32           ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-07 19:52             ` Bruce Stephens [this message]
2010-06-08  8:07             ` Michael J Gruber
2010-06-08  8:18               ` demerphq
2010-06-08  8:37                 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-06-08  0:25         ` Miles Bader
2010-06-08  7:29           ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-08  7:47             ` demerphq
2010-06-08 13:04               ` Matthieu Moy
2010-06-08  7:52             ` Miles Bader
2010-06-08  7:52             ` Jeff King
2010-06-08 18:13               ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-07  7:53     ` Paolo Bonzini

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