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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>
Cc: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>, 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: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:04:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqaar5r7zh.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimOenmDE53LZJY2yVNkMh7-6PS3yBiaprWC_Po6@mail.gmail.com> (demerphq@gmail.com's message of "Tue\, 8 Jun 2010 09\:47\:07 +0200")

demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> writes:

> On 8 June 2010 09:29, Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> wrote:
>> No they did not, because last time they _created a branch_.
>> Eventually, if they are lucky, they will learn in #git that they
>> were supposed to "git merge <remote>/X." And they will think "WTF?
>> Why do I have to _merge_? And what's this business about remotes?
>> Why is git is so complicated?"
>
> I'm confused. Wont they actually be told:
>
>   git checkout $foo
>   git pull
>   git push

Right. Just like they learnt clone/push/pull before knowing about
remote and tracking branches, because clone did the magic for them
when creating the repo.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-08 13:08 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
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 [this message]
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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