From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz" Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:04:18 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20100605110930.GA10526@localhost> <20100606164642.GA10104@localhost> <20100607185439.GB17343@localhost> <20100608072958.GA24302@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Clemens Buchacher , Miles Bader , git@vger.kernel.org, Peter Rabbitson To: demerphq X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jun 08 15:08:01 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OLyXA-0002cj-5A for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:08:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754862Ab0FHNHp (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jun 2010 09:07:45 -0400 Received: from imag.imag.fr ([129.88.30.1]:63813 "EHLO imag.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754556Ab0FHNHo (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jun 2010 09:07:44 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by imag.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o58D4IFK019870 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 8 Jun 2010 15:04:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OLyTa-0000Ia-Pk; Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:04:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: (demerphq@gmail.com's message of "Tue\, 8 Jun 2010 09\:47\:07 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.1.93 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (imag.imag.fr [129.88.30.1]); Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:04:19 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: demerphq writes: > On 8 June 2010 09:29, Clemens Buchacher 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 /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/