From: Clemens Buchacher Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:02:25 GMT Subject: Re: DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz" Message-ID: <20100605150225.GA16594@localhost> In-Reply-To: On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:03:30PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 15:58, Clemens Buchacher 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.