From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:03:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] checkout to notice forks (Re: Minor annoyance with git push)
Message-ID: <46a038f90802190903g1a19e38i30198b368a800a89@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vfxvs75kp.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Feb 17, 2008 2:08 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
> > Perhaps making "git-checkout" to notice this and offer (or
> > suggest) fast-forwarding at that point may be safer and make
> > more sense.  You cannot grow your local branch unless you check
> > them out, and your remote tracking will keep growing without the
> > auto-ff you are suggesting, so it is not like people will lose
> > anchoring point to compare between branches if we do not
> > auto-ff.
>
> So I did this.

Great - *thanks*. I'm travelling ATM so lousy connectivity and
shattered focus. I did a fetch of git.git and can't spot this in next,
pu or master. Reading further down the thread I see that you're
probably rewriting it to use tree struct. Will give your initial patch
a whirl anyway.

cheers,


martin