Re: 'git branch' when origin branch with same name exists

From: Michael Schubert <mschub@elegosoft.com>
Date: Jun 19, 2012, 15:35 UTC
Message-ID: <4FE09C39.50702@elegosoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <4FE091FB.7020202@desrt.ca>

On 06/19/2012 04:51 PM, Ryan Lortie wrote:

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> So feature request: 'git branch' should not allow creating a local 
> branch that has the same name as a branch that already exists on 
> 'origin' (or any remote?) without some sort of --force flag.  It could 
> instead helpfully say:
> 
>    """
> 
>      The branch you are trying to create already exists on the origin.
>      Are you sure you don't want to checkout this branch using
>      'git checkout gtk-3-4'
> 
>   """
> 
> or something like that.
> 
> Thoughts?

This very much violates the distributed nature of Git. Everything is allowed, because it's *my* repository.