Re: [PATCH] Add function to checkout a branch in git.el

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Feb 13, 2008, 21:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20080213210420.GA9316@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <87zlu4vhon.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

On 2008-02-13 21:23:52 +0300, Sergei Organov wrote:

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> Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> writes:
>
> >   * if the user enters a name that's not the name of an existing
> >     branch, display a prompt like this
> >
> >       Creating new branch "foo". Where should it start?
> >
> >     Tab complete on existing tags and branches, but accept any
> >     committish. Create the new branch and switch to it.
>
> It still doesn't allow to detach HEAD at arbitrary tag/committish,
> as far as I can see.

It wouldn't be hard. Just try to interpret the string supplied by the user as a committish: if successful, check it out; if not, create a new branch by that name. Of course, this makes it impossible to create a branch with the same name as an existing committish, but that's probably OK.

> I believe the interface should be designed more carefully. Here are
> some thoughts/suggestions:

Yes, having different commands that do one job each and do it well isn't a bad idea either. I like my idea more, but obviously whoever writes the code gets to decide ...

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