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Re: DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz"

From
Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Date
Jun 5, 2010, 15:02 UTC
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<20100605150225.GA16594@localhost>
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On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:03:30PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
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> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 15:58, Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> wrote:
> 
> > I could not make much sense of the thread that came with the patch.
> > The discussion first seems to conclude that it is a bad idea, only
> > to implement it anyway.
> 
> I think it would be useful here to have some links to relevant posts,
> or at least to the relevant thread.

The discussion ends with this posting http://mid.gmane.org/7viqesz3mk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org , which basically says "we all agree this is bad."

Then Junio changes his mind his mind and posts the patches. http://mid.gmane.org/7vzl7pyvzl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org

Whether the feature has merit or not is suddenly not an issue any more and the discussion veers off in other directions about minor technical details and about the --nodwim/--noguess option, the notion of which I find ridiculous by the way. But it further illustrates how random and anti-DWIM this feature really is.

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  1. Clemens BuchacherJun 5, 2010
  2. Sverre RabbelierJun 5, 2010
  3. Clemens BuchacherJun 5, 2010
  4. Sverre RabbelierJun 5, 2010
  5. Clemens BuchacherJun 5, 2010
  6. Nicolas PitreJun 5, 2010
  7. Jeff KingJun 6, 2010
  8. Clemens BuchacherJun 6, 2010
  9. Jacob HelwigJun 6, 2010
  10. Clemens BuchacherJun 6, 2010
  11. Sverre RabbelierJun 6, 2010
  12. Jacob HelwigJun 6, 2010
  13. Clemens BuchacherJun 7, 2010
  14. Jan KrügerJun 7, 2010
  15. Clemens BuchacherJun 7, 2010
  16. Johan HerlandJun 6, 2010
  17. Matthieu MoyJun 6, 2010
  18. Clemens BuchacherJun 6, 2010
  19. Miles BaderJun 7, 2010
  20. Clemens BuchacherJun 7, 2010
  21. Matthieu MoyJun 7, 2010
  22. Clemens BuchacherJun 7, 2010
  23. Bruce StephensJun 7, 2010
  24. Michael J GruberJun 8, 2010
  25. demerphqJun 8, 2010
  26. Michael J GruberJun 8, 2010
  27. Miles BaderJun 8, 2010
  28. Clemens BuchacherJun 8, 2010
  29. demerphqJun 8, 2010
  30. Matthieu MoyJun 8, 2010
  31. Miles BaderJun 8, 2010
  32. Jeff KingJun 8, 2010
  33. Clemens BuchacherJun 8, 2010
  34. Paolo BonziniJun 7, 2010

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