Re: Bug: "git checkout -b" should be allowed in empty repo
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Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
- Date
- Feb 6, 2012, 08:51 UTC
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On 02/06/2012 06:06 AM, Jeff King wrote:
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> I kind of agree that we shouldn't be unnecessarily restrictive. On the > other hand, I am stretching to find the plausible reason that one would > want to throw away the normal convention. Code aside, it simply > introduces a slight communication barrier when talking with other git > users, and for that reason should be something you don't do lightly. I > don't recall seeing anybody complain seriously about it in the past six > years of git's existence.
In the real-world situation when I noticed this bug, I wasn't trying to use a nonstandard name for "master". What I was doing is importing a snapshot of some code from another non-git project onto a "vendor branch", which I knew I would later want to merge into my own work (which I planned to do on master).
Michael
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