Re: [PATCH/RFC] Convenient support of remote branches in git-checkout

From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 7, 2006, 10:18 UTC
Message-ID: <200611071118.28302.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v7iy89ffs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tuesday 07 November 2006 03:08, you wrote:

> I do not think we want a _new_ command.  It may make sense to
> enrich 'git-branch' for that.

I agree.

Probably similar, git-clone should use git-checkout at the end.

> If "git-checkout -b" does not use 'git-branch' to create a new
> branch in the current code, maybe we should, regardless of the
> usability enhancements under discussion.

Yes.

Josef

PS: This is one of the moments I wished git-branch still was a shell